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When are they going to make WSL usable for developers, though? I have a nice Core i7 Surface Pro that's collecting dust because anything that touches the filesy
by maxharris 8y ago
When are they going to make WSL usable for developers, though? I have a nice Core i7 Surface Pro that's collecting dust because anything that touches the filesystem under WSL is too slow to use for most of the work I do.
- setquk 8y agoThis is literally never going to get better despite promises. It’s a filesystem limitation of NTFS. Small files cause MFT contention due to the architecture of NTFS. This has always been a problem. Check out a really big git or SVN repo on the native box using native windows tools and compare to a native Linux install on ext4. Ext4 can take 10% of the time to complete. ReFS suffers the same fate too. I can’t say anything more than walk away. Using a VM is orders of magnitude faster.
- quietbritishjim 8y agoI find WSL to be pretty amazing. I can compile and test Linux binaries on my Windows laptop, and I can even directly use the same directory of source code as I use to build Windows binaries. I haven't noticed a difference in compilation or test times, but I wouldn't expect to unless it was at least an order of magnitude bigger. It's not like I sit there waiting for it to build (normally). Of course it's absolutely fair if you find WSL poor for your use case. But performance is not really the main thing that makes it "usable for developers", IMO.