What is the advantage of Visual Studio Code Remote-WSL extension?

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Tags: WSL

Answer

While you can edit files in Linux using Windows-based tools, you can’t easily run or debug on Windows. You would have to install all the same tools on Windows as you did on Linux, defeating the purpose of having an isolated Linux environment.

You could view files from your \\wsl$\ share, but you wouldn't have access to features such as autocomplete, debugging, or linting.

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