Comment by aggling
1 day ago
This is amusing but infeasible in practice because it would need to be behaviorally compatible with Windows, including all bugs along with app compatibility mitigations. Might as well just use Windows at that point.
1 day ago
This is amusing but infeasible in practice because it would need to be behaviorally compatible with Windows, including all bugs along with app compatibility mitigations. Might as well just use Windows at that point.
you have full control of a Linux system. win32/linux respects your rights that microsoft doesn't. that's the difference.
That is irrelevant to the feasibility of reimplementing the Win32 API on Linux.
WINE has been reimplementing the Win32 ABI (not API) for decades. It already works pretty well; development has been driven by both volunteers and commercial developers (CodeWeavers) for a long time.
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It's already been done, though. Wine has been around for 30 years and has excellent compatibility at this point.
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