[solarkraft]

Isn’t the modern Windows runtime just Linux anyway?

[emeryberger]

(Scalene author here) Nope, but WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is, and Scalene works great with it.

[pjc50]

Er .. no? The modern Windows runtime, for various definitions of those words, is the confusingly named "WinRT" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-...

Underneath it's still substantially similar to good old Windows NT.

There's a Linux "subsystem". Well, two of them. WSL1 is an API translation layer that ends up being cripplingly slow. Don't use it. WSL2 is more of a VM that just runs a Linux distro. This is before you get into third party compatibility layers like cygwin and mingw.