[jasonkester]

imagine writing running a Linux command, piping its output in a Windows command to pipe it again in a Linux command.

But that's not most of us want to do with WSL. We just want to run the team's React app with its rube goldberg npm monstrosity that falls over when you try to run it on windows.

That use case covers 90% of us. No need to ask for anything more.

[TeMPOraL]

This is how our industry goes to crap. Repeatedly pruning things that 90% of the current userbase doesn't use over time give you a thoroughly useless product. I mean, do it 7 times, and you've already lost 50% of your audience. If you target 80% cutoff, you're down to 20% of the users now.

I personally do want it from WSL. Hell, 90% of my use of WSL is like this - I run Emacs on my work machine under WSL, where it feels at home. I use it to drive Windows-side cmake and Visual Studio compiler, piping output back to Emacs. Because I can, it works, and it's a much nicer working experience than any app could give me.