Going down a different containerized route, if you use Docker for this you won't even need a separate WSL installation for each project but you'll still get your own container based isolation with an "open terminal and start coding!" work flow.<p>WSL plays nicely with Docker for Windows[0].<p>At this point Windows running Docker connected through WSL offers me a more productive Linux development environment than running Linux natively (mainly because certain apps I depend on don't run on Linux).<p>I've been running this set up for months and it's super solid.<p>[0]: <a href="https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows-and-wsl-to-work-flawlessly" rel="nofollow">https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows...</a>
Is it just me or should it have been named the other way around? This is a Linux Subsystem for Windows (just like there is/was a POSIX subsystem for Windows).<p>I thought this was an official WINE-like layer for Linux.