It is a more-native experience in the sense that for the open source developer, you are using the same binaries as are typically deployed in production. Pretty

It is a more-native experience in the sense that for the open source developer, you are using the same binaries as are typically deployed in production. Pretty much no one hosts web applications on OSX, and you still run into the odd library that you have to fiddle with to get running right on OSX. Brew always felt a little hacky to me, or at least not fully part of the OSX ecosystem. So, in that way, WSL has a leg up.