They didn't "theoretically" open source it - they actually open sourced it.
I get why people used to shit on Microsoft, but Microsoft has demonstrated over a number of years that its changed under Satya.
> However the way that this always works is that there is a base that can be written in, but anything non-trivial will have pulled in something that, surprise surprise, is Windows only.
Outside of desktop GUIs, this is simply not true. I'm writing complex, cross-platform systems that work just fine on Windows and Linux (and would on MacOS if I chose to target it).
Hell, even a lot of the tooling is now cross-platform: Visual Studio Code, Azure Data Studio, even Visual Studio and Xamarin run on MacOS!
So because it’s not the same code base but it is produced by the same company with the same purpose? It’s not “Visusl Studio Code”? Was Photoshop not Photoshop on Windows when the assembly language optimizations were different between PPC and x86?
I get why people used to shit on Microsoft, but Microsoft has demonstrated over a number of years that its changed under Satya.
> However the way that this always works is that there is a base that can be written in, but anything non-trivial will have pulled in something that, surprise surprise, is Windows only.
Outside of desktop GUIs, this is simply not true. I'm writing complex, cross-platform systems that work just fine on Windows and Linux (and would on MacOS if I chose to target it).
Hell, even a lot of the tooling is now cross-platform: Visual Studio Code, Azure Data Studio, even Visual Studio and Xamarin run on MacOS!