It only matters if you do most of your stuff inside a terminal anyway. If you start your npm/yarn run scripts from inside your IDE you most likely won't need WSL. If you use a Git GUI or use an IDE feature to commit and push to Git you most likely won't need WSL.
You can use cmd prompt and do everything there without the use of WSL, your above comments make it seem like if you use terminal, you definitely should be using WSL. There are tons of people that use GUI editors, and still use cmd prompt for git and npm.
There are quite a lot of differences between OSes, but for your avg developer that doesn't see much sysadmin it really won't matter much as long as they got a good development setup.
I think the only really good reason to use WSL2 layer is if your job requires server setup/test, and your job gives you a Win10 laptop or you like using Windows, in that case yes you need to test in an environment as close to production.
I'm really curious for a list of things you can't do on Windows to be honest. Nowadays there's very little difference in terms of capability between any operating system / distribution.
Agreed, you can do pretty much all major tasks in any OS, just really comes down to user preference and how much productive are in that OS, this does make sense. : )
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I think your comments contradict themselves.
You can use cmd prompt and do everything there without the use of WSL, your above comments make it seem like if you use terminal, you definitely should be using WSL. There are tons of people that use GUI editors, and still use cmd prompt for git and npm.
There are quite a lot of differences between OSes, but for your avg developer that doesn't see much sysadmin it really won't matter much as long as they got a good development setup.
I think the only really good reason to use WSL2 layer is if your job requires server setup/test, and your job gives you a Win10 laptop or you like using Windows, in that case yes you need to test in an environment as close to production.
Agreed, you can do pretty much all major tasks in any OS, just really comes down to user preference and how much productive are in that OS, this does make sense. : )