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by peterhull90 941 days ago
I personally would like to see it but I think there would need to be a solution for Windows too, since that is nearly 70% of desktop OS use vs. 20% for MacOS and 3% for Linux.[0] Otherwise it would be a lot of work for the benefit.

[0]: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

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Windows has had Unix sockets for quite a few years now.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-...

I didn't know that, thanks. If this is news to anyone else - in the "What's next?" section of the article it mentions interop between Win32 and WSL using AF_UNIX sockets, which became possible in a later update[0]

[0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windowswsl-intero...