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Microsoft Makes "Edit" Command Line Editor Open-Source, WSL Going Open-Source Too
Microsoft kicked off its Build 2025 developer conference today with some open-source announcements.
Edit is now open-source on GitHub as a Rust-written, MIT-licensed text editor geared for the Windows Terminal. Edit is lightweight, supports a mouse mode, and has other features akin to the likes of Nano and Vim but with a focus on simplicity. It will be quite interesting to see the WSL open-source release and how it will ultimately affect the trajectory moving forward for this means of running Linux binaries atop Windows.
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