How to run Visual Studio Code with WSL

Install Visual Studio Code on Windows.

Then make sure we install Visual Studio Code extension Remote - WSL.

Optional step: Windows has a new terminal tool that is good to communicate with Linux running in WSL. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations. You can install it here or github.

From the WSL command line tool, in the source code folder, we can start Visual Studio Code using command Code .

And from Windows, we can edit and compile source code in WSL.

Windows Subsystem for Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux is a great tool that let developers try Linux tools, applications directly in Windows. The Linux kernel and Windows kernel can now share system resources, such as memory and CPU. 

I am trying some open sources that cannot run on Windows. They are working well with WSL2.

• Rocket.Chat: I compiled and run successfully.
• Apache Airflow: Run successfully.

Beside that, from Windows, developers can use tools to code or interact with the applications, source code in WSL system. Some are:

• Windows Terminal supports console to Linux system. 
• Visual Studio Code supports development with source code in Linux system.