Both WSL1 and WSL2 are slow for cross-platform disk access... but WSL2 is fast for within-the-vm disk access (unlike WSL1). Means if code resides in the linux

Both WSL1 and WSL2 are slow for cross-platform disk access... but WSL2 is fast for within-the-vm disk access (unlike WSL1). Means if code resides in the linux vm and you can somehow edit it directly (eg: VSCode + WSL2 plugin), it's fast.