[TimTheTinker]

> But let's not forget all of the moves toward a friendlier Microsoft/Linux world looks suspiciously like "Embrace"

“Embrace” is happening everywhere these days. Don’t sound the alarm until you see Extend.

[RX14]

Wsl is getting scarily close to Linux performance in benchmarks and improving fast. I don't see extend being too far away...

[moljac024]

WSL has horrible horrible IO performance. It's really not going anywhere until they fix it, and the fix won't be easy

[HelloWorldInWS]

But they don't really need to fix it. Sure, it'd be nice, but they're targeting developer machines and utilities with WSL, not a server replacement of Linux. Nobody would buy a Windows license just to serve from LAMP stacks on WSL over Azure or something. Speed requirements for dev machines are a little less stringent, and as long as they are hitting better-than-Docker numbers, they will still be providing value.

Sidenote: looks like I/O performance is really not that bad in most cases already, and sometimes even faster than Linux distros like Ubuntu: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=wsl-febr...

[contextfree]

It runs on Windows and can interop with Windows applications, that's already an extension by itself.