A Developer's Journey to WSL2 Awesomeness
The shift in modern systems architecture to cloud and microservices brought huge changes to the way people develop applications. A long time ago (~15 years) we focused on clients accessing directly the database or some middleware running on local servers. In that time, the development environment had to reflect the target environment where those applications were going to be running. As you can imagine, most of the clients were targeting hardware running Windows. Hence, having a Windows PC/laptop was quite useful and, let’s admit it, there were not many other options to chose from. However, nowadays, running applications targeting big cloud providers and devices based on Unix/Linux operating systems made it difficult for Windows users to properly emulate those systems. ...