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by yokohummer7 3356 days ago
I see. I'm also kinda a "runs Vim and writes Makefiles" guy, but I'm more hopeful about the Ubuntu layer being more seamlessly integrated into the native rather than waiting for Cygwin to improve. After all, WSL is official, and Microsoft seems to put a lot of efforts into it.

As a side note, like you said, Cygwin is slow. I once measured how much time compiling things consumed on both Cygwin/MSYS2 and WSL. `./configure` was 3 times faster on WSL, and `make` was 2 times faster. I assume the reason to be WSL's process management being lighter. This is another reason I'm looking forward to see the improvements to WSL's native integration.