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At $WORK, I more or less can only develop on a Windows machine. Getting Docker approval is needlessly painful. Until Docker and WSL are Microsoft standard tools, then yes, these solutions are required.

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How is WSL not a Microsoft standard tool? What makes it different from Visual Studio or VSCode or whatever, which is also never going to be built into Windows? Why can you get Python installed but not WSL?

WSL is a full Linux/Ubuntu?

So you can install whatever you can apt-get/wget into it?

I can see that being a problem in restricted environments.

For a software developer, who can run any software they want (because they need to be able to run the software they’re paid to work on), including software that could subvert all the restrictions anyway?

Clearly you are not familiar with corporate IT and "security" compliance.

I kinda am (though luckily not subject to it), and I find it laughable.

If that's really an issue, corporate IT can have an air gapped repo used for apt-get. I use purely air gapped systems at $WORK and it's not too bad.

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