Windows

[Jeff-Winchell]

Having worked at Vulcan for Paul Allen, he must be turning in his grave that a project with his name on it does not support the primary software of the company that he co-founded.

He would also be shocked to learn that this software does support the macs, which lack a GPU usable in deep learning rendering them 10 to 1000 times slower than a computer with AI industry standard GPUs.

Suggestion: Support Windows, the OS used by 80+% of business computers.

[dirkgr]

First of all, AllenNLP runs fairly well inside of WSL, if you want to give that a go.

AllenNLP is a research platform, and our friends at Microsoft Research notwithstanding, not a lot of research gets done on Windows computers. However, just because Windows isn't part of our testing matrix doesn't mean there is no hope of running it on Windows. Some people do. If you choose to do so, and you run into trouble, we're happy to review a pull request or two.

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@dirkgr this is just a friendly ping to make sure you haven't forgotten about this issue 😜

[Jeff-Winchell]

How much research has been done on the "not a lot of research gets done on Windows computers" theory? My guess is 0.

Also, research is also done commercially. Ignoring Windows is a problem. 80% of users * % of research or research-like works = still a large number for an org that wouldn't exist if it weren't for all the tens of billions Paul Allen made from Windows existing.

Maybe I'll send a note to Paul's sister.

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@dirkgr this is just a friendly ping to make sure you haven't forgotten about this issue 😜