Changelog & Friends – Episode #95

wsl.exe -- cat hello.cs

with Craig Loewen & Mads Torgersen at Build 2025

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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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Chapters

1 00:00 Let's talk! 00:38
2 00:38 Sponsor: Heroku 03:06
3 03:44 Meet Craig Loewen 01:58
4 05:43 Getting to Dev Mode 02:08
5 07:51 Adam wants a Wizard 02:08
6 09:59 The idea behind WSL 02:06
7 12:05 Exactly how it works 03:10
8 15:15 Getting to Ubuntu 00:49
9 16:03 Adam wants Hyper-V 02:10
10 18:14 diff WSL Hyper-V 03:21
11 21:35 The Windows allure 00:57
12 22:33 Making it faster 01:26
13 23:59 Open source 01:04
14 25:03 Open contribution 04:02
15 29:05 rsync on Windows: DOPE 01:12
16 30:18 Backslashes are Trash 02:43
17 33:00 File system mappings 02:51
18 35:52 Baking it in 01:20
19 37:12 Getting started 01:55
20 39:07 Thanks, Craig! 00:15
21 39:21 Sponsor: Depot 02:09
22 41:31 Meet Mads Torgersen 01:47
23 43:17 The C# handoff 01:02
24 44:20 What it felt like 01:46
25 46:05 Making design decisions 01:16
26 47:21 Visiting C#landia 02:59
27 50:20 Keeping up with trends 01:10
28 51:29 Language envy 02:50
29 54:19 Scripting C# 01:39
30 55:58 The functional bits 04:02
31 1:00:00 Backwards compat 01:38
32 1:01:37 Team size 00:59
33 1:02:36 AI language features 03:38
34 1:06:14 A new kind of user 01:43
35 1:07:56 AI language selection 02:40
36 1:10:36 Programs as AI tools 01:47
37 1:12:23 The best AI tool 01:22
38 1:13:45 An AI language 01:39
39 1:15:24 MS language innovation 01:46
40 1:17:10 Hard times for new langs 02:32
41 1:19:42 Optimistic about... 01:17
42 1:20:59 Learning from kids 05:01
43 1:26:00 Thanks, Mads! 00:40
44 1:26:40 Coming up next (join ++) 01:07

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