

Since then, the WSL team has been hard at work, dramatically improving WSL’s abilty to run an ever increasing number of native Linux command-line binaries and tools, including most mainstream developer tools, platforms and languages, and many daemons/services* including MySQL, Apache, and SSH. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was first introduced at Build in 2016 and was delivered as an early beta in Windows 10 Anniversary Update. This eliminates the need to establish an SSH connection and is the recommended workflow for building and debugging on WSL.


8, 2020: Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 and later has native support for WSL.
