clj-on-windows

For those interested in making clj on Windows https://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/TDEPS-67. Also see https://github.com/littleli/scoop-clojure.
2019-10-18T04:13:33.041Z

@filipematossilva i agree your last comment starting "novice or intermediate users..." -- perhaps ms is trying to make things somewhat tolerable for enough devs to work on porting things while they have some other plans to arrange for a situation where it will be easier to port to windows... in any case, having something like wsl2 usable by the home edition of w10 seems better than not.

Filipe Silva 2019-10-18T11:13:27.041200Z

oh yeah

Filipe Silva 2019-10-18T11:14:00.041900Z

for me wsl2 means "I don't have to bend over backwards with docker when I need to test things on linux"

Filipe Silva 2019-10-18T11:14:50.042800Z

and "I don't feel pressured to get a mac because all my coworkers use macs primarily and have project tooling setup for it"

Filipe Silva 2019-10-18T11:15:36.043600Z

so in that sense wsl2 is mostly preventing me from looking at non-windows machines

Filipe Silva 2019-10-18T11:16:59.044500Z

I've a friend that has been given a mac on his last few jobs and he just hates the damn thing, and has to justify to the company why he should get a non-mac machine

Filipe Silva 2019-10-18T11:18:09.045300Z

arguably having a real linux distro integrated with windows is better than having the osx flavour of linux compat

Filipe Silva 2019-10-18T11:18:23.045700Z

I mean, when I push things to CI or remote servers they aren't running osx

Filipe Silva 2019-10-18T11:19:00.046400Z

there is an advantage is having access to a dev env that is closer to the env where code ends up running