As I understand it, it's not a major deal now that WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) means you can run Linux software natively within the Windows environment.

As I understand it, it's not a major deal now that WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) means you can run Linux software natively within the Windows environment. So, it's no longer necessary for PHP (or anything else Linux-y) to be natively supported on the Windows OS; anyone can just boot up WSL and run it there, where it will work better anyway.