DMD on WIndows 10

[Neia Neutuladh]

On Sat, 05 Jan 2019 14:05:48 +0000, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> On Saturday, 1 August 2015 at 04:25:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> You know, it would be _really_ cool if there were an OS out there that
>> was fully compliant with both the POSIX standard and ecosystem and the
>> Win32 API such that you could run KDE, gnome,
>> bash, zsh, etc. on it just like on Linux/FreeBSD/etc. _and_ run Windows
>> programs on it - all as native applications. A total pipe dream really,
>> but _man_ would that be cool...
>>
> Sarcasm or just that you didn't know about WSL (Windows subsystem for
> Linux) on windows 10.
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
> 
> It's supposed to be able to run Linux app natively on windows 10.
> bash as shell and much more.

There's no way to run KDE or GNOME with it instead of the native shell, 
though. If you succeeded, you wouldn't be able to run native Windows 
applications inside. I ran into this problem running GNOME on OSX.

And as a nitpick, Linux isn't fully POSIX compliant.