Fancy a spot of weekend tinkering?
Amid the puffery over Windows 365, Microsoft also released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 with some intriguing features for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 users. Visual Studio 2022, now finally available in 64-bit flavour, also added a range of additional languages in the update and new Live Preview experiences for XAML and web apps. However, for developers toiling away at the coalface of C++, the availability of a native Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) toolset should make life a little simpler. WSL2 is Microsoft’s latest and greatest attempt at bringing Linux apps to Windows. Where its predecessor was a translation layer, the new shiny runs in a lightweight virtual machine and sports a full Linux kernel for much improved system call compatibility. WSL1, however, still had the edge with the native WSL1 toolset introduced in Visual Studio 2019 16.
