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WSL2 has its own filesystem (ext4 and everything). Accessing it is fast, accessing windows filesystem from wsl and vice versa is still slow. This is a big deal
by eknkc 6y ago
WSL2 has its own filesystem (ext4 and everything). Accessing it is fast, accessing windows filesystem from wsl and vice versa is still slow.
This is a big deal because, say you wanted to use intellij idea on wsl, using it on windows side and accessing the wsl filesystem does not really work. It is too slow. Now you can run it in linux, access the native fs. I imagine it would perform pretty good.
- voidfunc 6y agoPerf is decent, I already do this with x410 and IntelliJ. I have noticed some quirks tho with slow syncs between editor and actual file contents that ive never noticed on a host running just Linux
- _-david-_ 6y agoI haven't tried this yet, but would something like this https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/03/11/projector-is-out/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/03/11/projector-is-out/ help out?
- hnbad 6y agoFWIW this is why VSCode has the Remote extension, which includes support for running VSCode headless in WSL and connecting to that from Windows. Theoretically this change would eliminate the need for that but it's nice to have the same VSCode on Windows as in WSL.