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"MacInternals:" With help from AI, the Process Explorer dev tool is coming to Apple "in a few weeks"

Last week, Sysinternals creator Mark Russinovich started experimenting with agentic coding. Now Process Explorer for Mac will be available within weeks, he tells us.

Phillip de Wet
By  Phillip de Wet
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"MacInternals:" With help from AI, the Process Explorer dev tool is coming to Apple "in a few weeks"
(Mark Russinovich)

The long-beloved Process Explorer is coming to Mac, thanks to agentic coding.

On the weekend, Sysinternals creator Mark Russinovich teased – with only a screenshot – what one commenter immediately dubbed "MacInternals:" what appears to be an Apple-native version of Process Explorer.

Russinovich is the CTO of Microsoft Azure, but is also widely known as the public face of Process Explorer and the broader Sysinternals toolset, which dates back to 1996 but remains hugely popular. 

Process Explorer is widely more useful in debugging than the likes of Task Manager or Apple's Activity Monitor, showing the live process tree, loaded DLLs, open handles, and CPU and memory usage. It is particularly useful for dealing with file locks and suspicious behaviour. 

Russinovich told The Stack he intends to release the Mac version "in a few weeks," following development that consisted of two days of prompting.

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  • Phillip de Wet

    Phillip de Wet

    Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery, studying AI while writing about everything from hardware to infosec policy.

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