I always run it in a virtual machine when I'm developing on Windows or OS X.

dx034 · on July 10, 2020

Shouldn't WSL do the trick? Especially with WSL2 I found no need to use a dedicated virtual machine to use Linux applications in Windows.

shakna · on July 10, 2020

WSL2 _is_ a dedicated virtual machine for Linux on Windows. It runs under Hyper-V.

Already__Taken · on July 10, 2020

That was wsl1, wsl2 is much tighter integrated than just thinking of it as a VM running in hyper V.

ygra · on July 10, 2020

WSL 1 was not a virtual machine. It was a re-implementation of the Linux kernel API within the Windows kernel. As such, it's probably more comparable to CoLinux (if that's still a thing).

jawngee · on July 10, 2020

It's not really about running linux applications as much as running your application in the same or similar environment to what you are ultimately deploying on.

siliconapex · on July 10, 2020

Exactly, I could run in WSL but I run in Docker or VirtualBox to emulate the production environment.