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0 pointsScarbutt5y ago0 comments

I don't use windows but in your case it solves this problem better with wsl2 since you can have the same real linux that runs on your servers.

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thekyle5y ago· 2 in thread

I really wanted to like WSL 2 but it has a lot of bugs that may take years to get ironed out (unusably slow disk IO, memory leaks, virtual disks that grow forever, etc.)

I think it would probably work for web development as long as you keep everything inside WSL, but for other development tasks you're going to run into issues real quick.

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4699

nickjj5y ago

I use WSL 2 for full time development on the stable release of Windows 10.

The last 2 issues are an issue as of today but you can workaround them where it becomes a non-issue in the end by setting 1 config file value and running 1 command maybe once a month.

Also if you keep your source code inside WSL 2's file system then the first 2 issues are non-issues in practice.

Cu3PO425y ago

Anecdotally I've been doing development in C++, Rust, .NET and other languages just fine in WSL2.

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