The Evolution of WSL: A Developer’s Paradise

We bring you back to Microsoft Build 2025 to nerd out with Craig Loewen on Windows Subsystem for Linux and Mads Torgersen on leading the design of C#.

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Featuring:

• Craig Loewen – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Mads Torgersen – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
• “Backslashes are Trash” by Mat Ryer on YouTube

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!