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Are you using #WSL? Please reach out and share your use cases. I'm eager to learn!
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@zygoon I use WSL on a daily basis. I do fun dev work almost exclusively in Linux, but I have to use Windows for work. This makes it painless to switch between the two without needing to reboot into a different environment. The fun dev work in Linux these days is largely working on #N64 decompilation projects, where all of the tooling is Linux only, which is fine by me.
@zygoon I got a Windows laptop and needed Linux CLI too so installed WSL hoping it would be easier than dual booting and indeed it is.
@zygoon I'm personally free from windows for more that a decade now, but in out company we are developing (and running) software solutions for our customers on Windows Server platform.
We are starting to use (docker) containerization for some of our services, but we learned that docker is not feasible on Windows. We are slowly moving away to Linux servers, but still need to run Linux containers on Windows. And that is possible due to Docker Desktop (and WSL).
Microsoft recommend #Linux (via #WSL) as the best environment to develop #Python web apps:
"We recommend installing Python on WSL when building web applications. Many of the tutorials and instructions for Python web development are written for Linux users and use Linux-based packaging and installation tools."
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/python/web-frameworks
I'd go further and say it is better for all Python dev. Command line tools and package installation via repositories or Docker make life easier.
@zygoon Not me using it, but I have given the idea for that use case: