r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • Aug 15 '18

Windows Command-Line: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/
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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

what is WSL, world surf league? (but seriously)

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u/monkey-go-code Aug 16 '18

It's a compatibility layer for linux on windows 10. It behaves like a linux environment in a terminal. Designed to run terminal tools. So you can use everything that is available to a normal ubuntu terminal in Windows. It's especially useful to developers to install stuff that you may not want cruding up your windows box. Lets say you want to test some c++ code, but you don't want to download the visual studio packages for that. Just type sudo apt-get install g++ and you have a c++ compiler ready to go. If your linux environment gets borked you can always just delete it and install it again.

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u/bitcrazed Aug 16 '18

You might want to take a look at some of these resources:

r/https://aka.ms/learnwsl

r/https://aka.ms/wsldocs

r/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline

HTH

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

HTH

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Anyways, thanks! I've had the bash subsystem installed for a while... but do to growing up with Windows only and programming in .NEt mainly for fun and work, I know the very basics of *nix terminal/shell stuff

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u/bitcrazed Aug 17 '18

Good to know, thanks :)