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Nice. I've been using Memurai (https://www.memurai.com/) for development on Windows (native, no WSL or Docker - for reasons), but this looks much better.

EDIT: Weird that being a program from Microsoft (well, it's Microsoft Research, so that probably explains it?) it has no installer and doesn't run as a service on its own.

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The readytorun zip includes a service exe, it does need 'sc create binpath= ' etc. to be ran as a service.

Conventional wisdom from 10 years ago on HN is that Microsoft Research just pays some top researchers (with commercially interesting, err, interests) to keep doing their thing. I wouldn't distrust anyone from there based on their employer. That is from someone who doesn't trust MSFT very far.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't distrust them, it's just that some projects that come out of Microsoft Research are more rough around the edges!

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