Isn't non-native development on Windows a solved problem nowadays with WSL(2)?

murderfs · on May 13, 2019

WSL is currently horrendously (unusably, IMO) slow. WSL2 promises a 20x speed up, but it was already 100x slower than native Linux at some actually-realistic workloads that happen all the time when you're developing (e.g. `git grep`), so it's probably still too slow to be tolerable.

I had the opposite problem of wanting to develop some stuff for Windows from a Linux environment, and I settled on running a linux VM and copying binaries over by scping to WSL, which works reasonably well.

pletnes · on May 13, 2019

A nice thing with WSL is that you get working make and rsync. But I would like make for coding on native windows. Many FOSS projects use Makefile as the parent post described.