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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