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Unfortunately it doesn't make it more friendly to developers. If they wanted to make it more friendly to developers, they would release a Microsoft Linux distri
by darksaints 6y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't make it more friendly to developers. If they wanted to make it more friendly to developers, they would release a Microsoft Linux distribution. Maybe port some critical dev tools. There are far too many incompatible quirks with Windows to ever make it a reasonable development platform when targeting Linux.
- tjoff 6y agoWSL2 is a virtual machine. It is way more than a reasonable development platform for linux and it is very much friendly to developers, much more so than another distro would be. As a linux user I'm immensely happy that I can use the same shell-scripts and applications on windows machines as I do on linux. And that I can just SSH into it (and use the same tools, SSHing into powershell doesn't help much if you don't know or use powershell for anything else). It makes coexisting so much more comfortable.