I develop on WSL 2 / Ubuntu 22.04 with Windows Terminal, Emacs, and Intellij IDEA (running on WSL's X Windows server, WSLg). Performance (both graphical and terminal) is quick enough for development. Glitches happen (Emacs windows disappearing and needing to be brought back) but not often. If you have a Windows host, by all means use WSL 2 and a Linux distribution for development - it should be more satisfactory than your current VMWare Workstation setup.
John -----Original Message----- From: Robert Strickland <rstrickl...@apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 12:00 AM To: dev@daffodil.apache.org Subject: EXT: Re: WSL for linux on Windows? I also run Linux natively on my personal desktop and laptop. I typically refrain from doing any development on Windows systems and will go out of my way to find any method to circumvent it. I typically find that the Windows Terminal is sufficient enough for the development tasks I've need to complete. Though, it did take some adjusting to get used to the different CLI environment (setting environment variables, different CLI program arguments / options, etc...). I've worked on getting WSL set up on my personal desktop and attempted to do some C/C++ development but generally end up just shutting down my PC and booting into Debian. This is mostly due to the many "if-Windows-then" scenarios and the lack of complete control over the environment. I think we may all be familiar with the random occasion of attempting to delete a directory in Windows, only to be denied access even though there's only one user. In fact, I recently had to debug some issues on the Omega Edit codebase that were affecting the data editor capabilities within the Daffodil VSCode Extension. I was attempting to work within the WSL environment and was having a rough time because of the constant issues. First, there was an issue with trying to run a build.sh file and having bash syntax errors on the first line of the script. After spending some time trying to figure out why I found out that it was due to the \r\n newline and had to run `sed 's/\r$//' > build.sh` to resolve this. Second, I could never seem to get CMake to resolve the correct generator (Ninja) that I had installed on the WSL environment. I even tried installing CMake and Ninja on the Windows side of things and was still unable to resolve the issue. I ended up having to build using the CMake Windows default SDK. I haven't touched WSL since... I long for the day that companies hand out development Linux laptops. Developing on a Linux VM on Windows is often times just clunky and slow. I don't even want to think about having to develop anything on VMs that are accessed through the web browser... How could anyone get any work done with there is a constant 1-2 second graphical delay? TLDR; I found that it's too much of a setup / maintenance hassle to match the development efficacy of running a native Linux system. On 2024/01/30 19:22:14 Mike Beckerle wrote: > Is anyone doing development using WSL or WSL2 linux support? > > If so what is your experience with it? positive, negative,.... does it > work reliably? > > I have been having lots of freeze-ups using VMWare Workstation running > Ubuntu guest on windows host, and I'm starting to get pessimistic > about VMWare Workstation long term. > > I'd run Linux natively, but my employer requires that we use managed > laptops, but we can use Virtual Machines on them for development. > > Mike Beckerle > Apache Daffodil PMC | daffodil.apache.org OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair > | www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/standards/dfdl/dfdl > Owl Cyber Defense | www.owlcyberdefense.com >
