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Software development with VS Code and Remote-WSL

Software development with VS Code and Remote-WSL - Windows Tutorial

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Software development with VS Code and Remote-WSL

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- A primary function of Windows subsystem for Linux is to provide a Linux development environment for people using Windows computers and as a software developer, we can connect to the Linux environment in a variety of ways. The first option we have is to use a Windows editor to work with Linux files, or to use a Linux editor to work with files from the Windows file system using the file in drop capability of WSL. We've seen how to access files in this way in previous videos. One thing to be aware of though, if we use this method of editing files, is that we don't benefit from the full integration that's possible with other solutions. For example, if we have a project that's written in the Ruby language, we can open up and edit a Ruby file from the Linux file system, just fine. But if we try to run that file or debug it within our Windows editor, we'll find that the tools we expect to have, linters, interpreters and so on…

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