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On Sun, 2020-06-28 at 19:23 +0200, Christian Walde wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:57:39 +0200, John Lightsey <john@nixnuts.net> wrote: > > > I'd love to see Perl 8 fix [...] Windows support. > > 2 things here: > > 1. Please don't phrase it in a way that implies Perl doesn't support windows. I've been developing Perl on windows for over a decade and it works. > > 2. Out of curiosity, what specific points do you care about here? > I was thinking specifically about the problems with subprocess creation since I spent time looking at them recently: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14434 My understanding is that the fork() implementation in Perl also tends to cause confusion compared to the way Python or Ruby handle fork() calls on Windows. I apologize if my remarks implied Perl doesn't work on Windows. My intent was to argue that it could be better.Thread Previous | Thread Next