I too do that, working from a windows vm and writing code for linux - but I push it to a linux vm for testing. Never occurred to me to use WSL and have another environment to configure and maintain for dev that's different to the target one.
But fair play if that suits you! Each to their own, and I'm sure I do things that make no sense to others.
Thanks - I can kind of see that, as docker on windows is majorly broken. I think I'd just run it in a linux vm, as I do with most of my developing, but I can see some might not want that overhead.
I do know what it is, I just don't know why you'd use it instead of proper linux, or a vm.
I still don't know what WSL is for.
Good answer, and some good points.
My analogy is not perfect, but I think there are parralels. People are currently trying to shoe-horn AI into things where it's never going to work well, and that's resulting in a lot of stupid and a lot of justifiable anger towards it.
But alongside that, it is also finding genuinely useful places, and it is not going to go away. Give it a few more years and it'll settle down into something we rely on daily. Just as we did with electronic calculators. The internet. Smartphones. Everything since the Spinning Jenny has had a huge pressure against it because it's new and different and people are scared it'll negatively affect them, but things change and new things get adopted into the everyday. Personally I find it exciting to be alive during such a time of genuine invention and improvement.
Fair enough - it's not the most concrete of comparisons and those are good points, but I do feel there is an amplification of ludditism around AI just because it's new.
Hah! I had a calculator watch too - and I'm certain it got me my first girlfriend when I was 11!
You're right about that exact argument being used widely, I certainly was told I'd never have a calculator with me. Little did they know.
I went to school in the 1980s. That was the time that calculators were first used in class and there was a similar outcry about how children shouldn't be allowed to use them, that they should use mental arithmetic or even abacuses.
Sounds pretty ridiculous now, and I think this current problem will sound just as silly in 10 or 20 years.
Some people are just shittier than others. What they look like on the outside has no bearing on their inner beauty.
A perfect use for them - controlled environment, difficult conditions, repetitive and predictable workflow.
But I'm puzzled by the design - why have a cab? Wouldn't a more efficient layout be a whole-bed platform with all systems underneath?
X, for all the reasons.
Sharing filesystems could be useful, I can see that.
I do that with target dev platforms anyway, using things like NFS, samba and sftp, but I do see that it could work well for this.