Imagine spinning up a whole Linux VM to filter some text.
In all seriousness though, is there a reason ripgrep doesn’t suffice?
In all seriousness though, is there a reason ripgrep doesn’t suffice?
>Something something vim/emacs.
There's value in having a compatibility layer for a universal command line. Besides, even WSL2 is barely a VM
On serious side, even `findstr` is enough, but goal was to show interop in action, not to choose best grep alike solution.
On other serious side, I can ensure and enforce standardization on having WSL across the teams and departments and be sure such snippets work. Standardizing on ripgrep probably doesn't worth it.
For lonely/solo/indi technician that makes no sense and ripgrep can be better of course.
The same way of when JS dev uses docker and not giving a shit it's the whole Unix compatibile system under the hood (Linux), he just cares on getting Nginx-something from Docker Hub, effectively making Docker to be his platform of infrastructure, the same way small fraction of the crowd cares WSL2 is using Hyper-V under the hood.
If you make a poll on what kind of virtualiziation is needed to run WSL2, I bet the most used answer would be "virtua what?"