I honestly feel like I am missing something. What is the current excitement about bash on Windows? It's been available (and something I commonly use) via cygwin for years. And cygwin's bash can run .exe binaries.
Cygwin is quite slow due to problems emulating fork (large builds take forever!), plus the package support is spotty. I'm excited because I can eventually ditch Cygwin and VMs for much of my Linux compatibility testing and cross-platform work. And I'm glad Microsoft is finally putting some effort into this long-neglected area.
For the moment, I'm still stuck with Cygwin, shaking my head a bit too.
For the moment, I'm still stuck with Cygwin, shaking my head a bit too.