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That seems a bit rude. You get the QA you paid for - zero.

And nevertheless, whenever Windows software doesn't work in Wine, you shouldn't think "Wow, how did you fuck that up?". They never promised it'd work in WSL.

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It's a company, not volunteers. They're obviously have some long-term strategy to extract money beyond support (it's an editor). They are doing a lot ok marketing right now (dev-rel).

It's very much okay to have high expectation, even if the product costs zero. The user is the product, and so on.

Code that panics on bad external input (such as the OS) is incredibly sloppy. They already have the Result — they can just bubble it up and present an actual error message (and maybe even ask for diagnostics, etc).

I disagree.

They are on front page of HN with "zed on Linux is here". We got to have some standards, don't you think?

WSL is a pretty niche version of "Linux". I would guess that close to 0% of what makes it to the front page of HN had a QA team that explicitly tested it on WSL.

Please stop making up facts.

1 of 7 Rust developers use WSL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve...

I’m pretty sure there’s more than 7 Rust developers.

Maybe the Rust community and Windows users have a smaller intersection than let's say Windows and Ubuntu?

niche?

WSL (all distros combined) is the 2nd most popular Linux environment. Only behind Ubuntu.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...

One could easily reply an equally snarky answer of “Use a real OS, not MSFT spyware. We got to have some standards, don’t you think?”

It's pretty self-evident that Linux support can't be expected to mean Windows support. If something is broken in the Windows simulation of a Linux GUI stack you should be complaining to Microsoft, not to the developers of a program that works fine in a normal environment.

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