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How's Zed with WSL (now)? I've liked the ability to run the VS Code back-end in WSL and front-end in Windows, is this possible with Zed?

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I wouldn't go there. These things are supposed to be helpful, any bug or chance of a bug will be detrimental to their stated purpose, just imagine scenarios were zed tells git to download a repo and you have to make sure it downloads to a linux directory and not a windows directory, otherwise you lose all of the access bits, and it's slow af.

Asking for trouble.

I appreciate your concern and I will consider this.

The [VS Code] WSL back-end has access to things in WSL PATH, like compilers and language servers. I don't duplicate them in Windows, and would like to avoid having double installs. It's also nice to be able to open integrated terminal and use `fish` and other unix-only CLI utilities.

Zed still doesn't have Windows version (but someone is working on it), so currently no.

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