WSL VS lima

👉 Baixar WSL 2.3.24 (MSI)

Microsoft's DirectX C++ example code needs to interact with DirectX' C APIs. That will easily lead to "C with classes" C++ when most of the code is interacting with foreign APIs, like these API demos do.

I think open-source software like https://github.com/microsoft/WSL is probably more representative of what modern C++ companies look like. Plenty of files that just interact with OS C APIs, but no shortage of modern C++ features in use.

Microsoft continues to be a major contributor to open source and announced a couple major projects moving from closed-source to the open on GitHub. The first is a long-time coming project, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). I first used WSL to port a Java stack to Windows. That stack was a nightmare to run on Windows due to a team optimizing for macOS workflows but we wanted to enable new developers to use standard Windows dev machines and stop requiring expensive macOS hardware for a cross-platform native toolchain like Java. Today, WSL is a major part of the Windows developer experience. And now, Microsoft is open-sourcing WSL to allow the community to contribute and innovate on the project on GitHub.

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9049#issuecomment-26...

WSL GitHub Repository

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7973#issuecomment-27...

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If you are running Microsoft Windows, I want to advise one more prerequisite step that you need to take before getting started with Python or uv: install the Windows Subsystem for Linux, also known as WSL2. Do not, for the love of all that is good and holy, try and install Python tooling directly in Windows; install WSL first. This guide outlines all the steps you need to take to get started, though I recommend downloading WSL from the Releases page on Github instead of from the Microsoft Store as advised in Step 3.

Lima makes this really straightforward and supports vz virtualization. I particularly like that you can run x86 containers through rosetta2 via those Linux VMs with nerdctl. If you want to implement it yourself of course you can, but I appreciate the work from this project so far and have used it for a couple of years.

https://lima-vm.io/

Want a Docker-compatible CLI that works without Docker Desktop? Nerdctl plus Lima gives you containers without licensing drama.

Lima provides a lightweight alternative to Docker Desktop for macOS users, offering better resource efficiency and native Apple Silicon support.

Docker is a company that maintains the Docker software and also offers a cloud service to run Docker containers in the cloud. They run DockerHub, which is a platform to store share and run Docker images. The actual standard for Docker containers is called OCI (Open Container Initiative). Because Docker is based on OCI there are many other tools that can interact with Docker containers, like Podman or Lima. If you want to go really deep, I really recommend reading the OCI specification! It's long but super interesting.

I'm currently using colima, and none of the other alternatives that I have found support forwarding UDP ports, which I use a lot, so that's a bummer!

Thankfully, lima has landed a new port forwarder with UDP support! [0]. I'm hoping to be able to use it soon once it makes into a release.

[0]: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/13e9cbcabc6a0a05ec389...

Lima can launch Ubuntu VMs easily: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/examples/ubuntu....