butiez to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoThe best Uniximagemessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up1785arrow-down169
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minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·5 days agoit’s very popular with developers due to being a turnkey posix environment. given the choice between mac and windows for development, i would go with mac every time. it’s not my personal first choice but it’s tolerable.
minus-squareCosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoWSL is very workable as a dev environment. I just wish it wasn’t so janky with networking.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 days agoi don’t know about “very”. it is a crutch. a well-made crutch, but still a crutch. i curse it every time i need to connect a serial port.
it’s very popular with developers due to being a turnkey posix environment. given the choice between mac and windows for development, i would go with mac every time. it’s not my personal first choice but it’s tolerable.
WSL is very workable as a dev environment. I just wish it wasn’t so janky with networking.
i don’t know about “very”. it is a crutch. a well-made crutch, but still a crutch. i curse it every time i need to connect a serial port.