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0 pointszadjii7y ago0 comments

It's already available in current insider's builds, and will be landing officially in the next available Windows release some time later this year.

We're still working with ConEmu, VsCode, and OpenSSH to get them all over to the new API, with varying levels of adoption in the next few months likely.

Currently, WSL is also using the same functionality, if you open a WSL distro and run any Windows executables (eg `cmd.exe`), they'll run attached to a conpty. I use this as my daily driver.

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quotemstr7y ago

You might want to talk to the Cygwin people to get their pty layer to use the new virtual console.

hoppelhase7y ago

Maybe the guys at alacritty are interested in this as well.

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

nailer7y ago

They are: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/28

zadjiiOP7y ago

That is an excellent suggestion, I'll get our PM to reach out :)

cryptonector7y ago

Out of curiosity, are you backporting onto Windows 10, or is Windows 10 the only release vehicle for everything in master? If the latter, how are you releasing piecemeal?

zadjiiOP7y ago

Pretty much any new features we release are only available on new Windows 10 releases. Unless there's a gigantic demand for a feature, or business impact, we're not really capable on our team of backporting anything.

cryptonector7y ago

What I meant is: are you building a Windows 11, or is Windows 10 the only release vehicle? I'm trying to imagine you pushing to a master branch to integrate into what becomes the insider builds, and then... either those become a future release of Windows 10, or you backport onto a Windows 10 branch. Neither option would be very appealing to me if it was up to me.

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0 pointszadjii7y ago0 comments

It's already available in current insider's builds, and will be landing officially in the next available Windows release some time later this year.

We're still working with ConEmu, VsCode, and OpenSSH to get them all over to the new API, with varying levels of adoption in the next few months likely.

Currently, WSL is also using the same functionality, if you open a WSL distro and run any Windows executables (eg `cmd.exe`), they'll run attached to a conpty. I use this as my daily driver.

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quotemstr7y ago

You might want to talk to the Cygwin people to get their pty layer to use the new virtual console.

hoppelhase7y ago

Maybe the guys at alacritty are interested in this as well.

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

nailer7y ago

They are: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/28

zadjiiOP7y ago

That is an excellent suggestion, I'll get our PM to reach out :)

cryptonector7y ago

Out of curiosity, are you backporting onto Windows 10, or is Windows 10 the only release vehicle for everything in master? If the latter, how are you releasing piecemeal?

zadjiiOP7y ago

cryptonector7y ago

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