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Probably works with Python3 in WSL (let's say Ubuntu). That's good enough for Windows support right? ;) Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft on Python, linux and co

by verst 8y ago

Probably works with Python3 in WSL (let's say Ubuntu). That's good enough for Windows support right? ;) Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft on Python, linux and container things. This however is just my personal opinion and I'm not affiliated with this project.

pault 8y ago
I have to use Windows at work after ten years of development exclusively on Mac and Linux. Once I set up wsl at work I found that almost all of my gripes about developing on Windows were gone and a month ago I switched my home office to Windows. If you had told me two years ago that I'd be using Windows full time as a Dev environment I would have asked you what were you smoking and can I have some. I have to say though, the first time I started up my "pro" operating system and saw an ad for Candy crush in my start menu I almost bailed.
- escapecharacter 8y ago
  What program do you use for command line work? I’ve found Powershell and Cmder clunky compared to macOS terminal and any Ubuntu terminal.
  - coldacid 8y ago
    PSCore isn't bad so long as you don't load it down with Powershell modules. It only takes two or three beyond the built-ins to make it start crawling.
  - falcor84 8y ago
    I personally am very satisfied with ConEmu, launching Ubuntu 18.04's bash under WSL. My only gripe is with how messy it is to set up arrow keys to work in vim, and the solution I found doesn't work over ssh. EDIT: just to preempt suggestions that I should just use the home-row, I am, but it's really annoying for those of us not using qwerty (Colemak in my case).
  - daeken 8y ago
    I run an OpenSSH server inside WSL and then connect with Putty. It works perfectly, it's fast as hell, and it's super simple; it's just like connecting to any other box, really.
  - bashinator 8y ago
    I’m using gnome-terminal running in VcXsrv. The scrolling and font rendering is far better than any of the windows terninal apps I’ve tried.
  - tracker1 8y ago
    Hyper for bash, powershell ise for ps (really limited)
  - karate-fu 8y ago
    WSLtty is the only viable one if you ask me with Vim running a tad slow, but acceptable. Alacritty might soon overtake it.
  - gcb0 8y ago
    latelly the only way I can touch windows is with the shell from git-for-windows. it is surprisingly excellent.
verst 8y ago
For anyone using Docker I created an image for convenience. https://hub.docker.com/r/berndverst/mstextworld https://hub.docker.com/r/berndverst/mstextworld Source at: https://github.com/berndverst/mstextworld/ https://github.com/berndverst/mstextworld/
freeone3000 8y ago
I work on this project. We needed to pull in a few ways of running the backend game and communicating with it that weren't quite convenient on Windows. A number of integrated third-party components related to generating and running IF games are either linux-only or behave differently in windows and linux. In addition, the target audience is reinforcement learning researchers, who overwhelmingly use Python on Linux, so that focus was prioritized. Ubuntu on WSL actually is a test platform, and guided a few technical decisions (in part, WSL issues #902 and #162 narrowed what we could do). Honestly, that comment is not too far from the mark. :)

by verst 8y ago

pault 8y ago

I have to use Windows at work after ten years of development exclusively on Mac and Linux. Once I set up wsl at work I found that almost all of my gripes about developing on Windows were gone and a month ago I switched my home office to Windows. If you had told me two years ago that I'd be using Windows full time as a Dev environment I would have asked you what were you smoking and can I have some. I have to say though, the first time I started up my "pro" operating system and saw an ad for Candy crush in my start menu I almost bailed.

escapecharacter 8y ago
What program do you use for command line work? I’ve found Powershell and Cmder clunky compared to macOS terminal and any Ubuntu terminal.
- coldacid 8y ago
  PSCore isn't bad so long as you don't load it down with Powershell modules. It only takes two or three beyond the built-ins to make it start crawling.
- falcor84 8y ago
  I personally am very satisfied with ConEmu, launching Ubuntu 18.04's bash under WSL. My only gripe is with how messy it is to set up arrow keys to work in vim, and the solution I found doesn't work over ssh. EDIT: just to preempt suggestions that I should just use the home-row, I am, but it's really annoying for those of us not using qwerty (Colemak in my case).
- daeken 8y ago
  I run an OpenSSH server inside WSL and then connect with Putty. It works perfectly, it's fast as hell, and it's super simple; it's just like connecting to any other box, really.
- bashinator 8y ago
  I’m using gnome-terminal running in VcXsrv. The scrolling and font rendering is far better than any of the windows terninal apps I’ve tried.
- tracker1 8y ago
  Hyper for bash, powershell ise for ps (really limited)
- karate-fu 8y ago
  WSLtty is the only viable one if you ask me with Vim running a tad slow, but acceptable. Alacritty might soon overtake it.
- gcb0 8y ago
  latelly the only way I can touch windows is with the shell from git-for-windows. it is surprisingly excellent.

verst 8y ago

For anyone using Docker I created an image for convenience. https://hub.docker.com/r/berndverst/mstextworld https://hub.docker.com/r/berndverst/mstextworld Source at: https://github.com/berndverst/mstextworld/ https://github.com/berndverst/mstextworld/

freeone3000 8y ago

I work on this project. We needed to pull in a few ways of running the backend game and communicating with it that weren't quite convenient on Windows. A number of integrated third-party components related to generating and running IF games are either linux-only or behave differently in windows and linux. In addition, the target audience is reinforcement learning researchers, who overwhelmingly use Python on Linux, so that focus was prioritized. Ubuntu on WSL actually is a test platform, and guided a few technical decisions (in part, WSL issues #902 and #162 narrowed what we could do). Honestly, that comment is not too far from the mark. :)