Microsoft is adding the Linux command line to Windows 10

[Zkuq]

ohmylanta1003 said:

Zkuq said:

Bash on Windows? Awesome! Oh, it requires Windows 10? Meh. Or maybe it'll be great if a practical need to switch over to Windows 10 arises one day.

In what sense? On the command line, you choose the compiler every time you use it. Sounds like it's going to ship with gcc though, but I bet you Microsoft will also integrate its own compiler in there somehow.

I was asking what compiler it would ship with, which you answered. I use g++ sometimes, but mostly clang++, but I'm sure gcc will be just fine.

Ah, I see. I'm not really that familiar with Linux to be sure, but I believe a lot of Linux distributions include gcc out of the box. I think Ubuntu does, which is what should count here. And considering I read somewhere it'll ship with apt-get though, you should be able to install your compiler of choice quite easily - depending on how exactly apt-get works on Windows, of course.