Thanks for sharing, that was an interesting read. I know the IO performance has always been the main gripe with WSL.
It makes me think more broadly about some of the trade offs with the discussions that happen on Github Issues.
It’s great that insights like this get pulled out in the discussions, and this could serve as excellent documentation. However, the discoverability will be difficult and it always takes some weeding through the low quality comments to piece the insights from contributors together.
I wonder how Github (and Microsoft) could better handle this. They could allow for flagging in-depth comments like this into a pinned section and they could be updated collaboratively in the future (Wiki?).
It also feels like a reputation system could help to motivate healthier discussions and could bury low quality “me too” comments and gripes. It’s not so bad in the linked example but I often encounter many rude comments aimed against volunteer OSS developers.
This particular post is pretty famous if you've been following the development of WSL. It's constantly linked to and referenced from other GitHub issues regarding WSL performance. So I think GitHub's current system is succeeding in that regard, although there are so many good points raised here that I wish it could get turned into a standalone blog post.
It makes me think more broadly about some of the trade offs with the discussions that happen on Github Issues.
It’s great that insights like this get pulled out in the discussions, and this could serve as excellent documentation. However, the discoverability will be difficult and it always takes some weeding through the low quality comments to piece the insights from contributors together.
I wonder how Github (and Microsoft) could better handle this. They could allow for flagging in-depth comments like this into a pinned section and they could be updated collaboratively in the future (Wiki?).
It also feels like a reputation system could help to motivate healthier discussions and could bury low quality “me too” comments and gripes. It’s not so bad in the linked example but I often encounter many rude comments aimed against volunteer OSS developers.