WSL vs crossword-composer

WSL

Source code behind the Windows Subsystem for Linux documentation. (by MicrosoftDocs)

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docs.microsoft.com

crossword-composer

Constraint solver for word games. (by paulgb)

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crossword.paulbutler.org

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WSL		crossword-composer
	Project
22	Mentions	1
1,607	Stars	40
1.6%	Growth	-
7.9	Activity	0.0
10 days ago	Latest Commit	16 days ago
PowerShell	Language	Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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WSL

Posts with mentions or reviews of WSL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-20.

There are literally no reasons to choose an iPhone over an Android smartphone
5 projects | reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion | 20 Dec 2022

Off the top of my head was this bug that caused a lot of people using vbox to swap to vmware. Just a bunch of really annoying compatibility bugs that made it a nightmare if you were trying to use it like a native linux instance.
Switched fully from Linux to W11, love it
2 projects | reddit.com/r/Windows11 | 24 Feb 2022

yeah. But, the github complaint says otherwise https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/798
Chocolatey
6 projects | reddit.com/r/xps13 | 5 Jun 2021

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/798 - maybe fixed a couple of months ago. I personally haven't tried.
WebAssembly
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2021
ASROCK Doesn't support LINUX is becoming a major problem
2 projects | reddit.com/r/ASRock | 4 Feb 2021

After that https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/590 , fixed things for me.

2 projects | reddit.com/r/ASRock | 4 Feb 2021

crossword-composer

Posts with mentions or reviews of crossword-composer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-27.

WebAssembly
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2021

A few wasm projects I've worked on:
- An in-browser crossword puzzle generator: https://crossword.paulbutler.org/ (source: https://github.com/paulgb/crossword-composer)
- A multi-player word game: https://redwords.paulbutler.org/
- A library for synchronizing state between clients, used for that word game: https://aper.dev/ (source: https://github.com/aper-dev/aper very WIP right now)
In my experience, the single biggest perk of using WebAssembly is that I can use a language I'm very productive in (Rust) compared to JavaScript. Everything else is secondary. That said, I think these projects have specific advantages by virtue of being WebAssembly:
- The backtracking search used for the crossword puzzle generator is carefully implemented to not allocate extra memory. This would be tough to do in JavaScript, and I believe it's partly responsible for its performance.
- The word game uses a compression algorithm that benefits very noticeably from wasm-opt, to the point that I can't run it without it. Given that wasm-opt takes a non-trivial amount of time at compile time, I suspect the JavaScript JIT would be slow at doing something similar at runtime. This is just conjecture, I haven't checked.
- What Aper does just wouldn't be possible without Rust features like Serde and macros.