On: Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released

[Longhanks]

macOS is certified unix, neither windows nor Linux are.

To get the same environment that is WSL (namely a virtual machine with tight integration and low overhead), Apple provides Hypervisor.framework: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor

[apitman → Longhanks]

If this sounds interesting, see https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

[toqy → apitman]

I've been using https://github.com/abiosoft/colima as a Docker Desktop replacement, which is based on Lima. It's pretty nice.