druntime redesign

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 6 May 2020 at 17:38:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2020-05-06 10:40, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>
>> POSIX has kind of lost relevance, hence why Microsoft went 
>> with Linux for their new new POSIX subsystem.
>
> The Linux subsystem is now actually a proper Linux kernel, 
> running side by side with the Windows kernel, and not a 
> reimplementation of the Linux kernel API.

Indeed, which was the point I was making, Linux compatibility has 
become more valuable than plain old POSIX.

They are also not the first vendor to go for that approach, other 
UNIXes and mainframes also offer similar compatibility, through 
various means.