Update (June 2019): Much of this post remains true, and is still relevant ~six months later (slow IO perf, WSL feeling like a shim), but there are some major improvements just around the corner. Specifically, with WSL2 moving to a VM-based architecture, a lot of the perf woes are scheduled to disappear. With VS Code’s Remote extension, the “two halves of the same system” problem - where you have to duplicate your toolchain - is effectively gone (this has been my favorite improvement so ...
