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by wvenable 2229 days ago
> This means that code written for this will NOT function on desktop Linux.

Like CUDA, I assume that most applications would not be coded to this API directly. Microsoft already mentioned OpenCL and OpenGL.

This is to hardware accelerate Linux applications and not to create WSL-specific Linux apps. I can't imagine there's a big market for Linux GUI apps that would only run on Windows.