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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 19 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Shit, with the way computer horsepower has improved over the years, how hard can it be to add a legacy Windows emulator or whatever WINE is, especially when you have the original source code available?

[โ€“] orclev@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago

WINE is basically an adapter. It exposes a Windows API and calls the equivalent Linux APIs when invoked. That's less overhead than an emulator which models an entire virtual piece of hardware. When you run a Windows program through WINE your computer is actually executing the code of the program just like any Linux one it's just calling WINE libraries instead of the Windows ones it normally would.