Had the same problem, wanted to use gemini but wanted to setup a speeding limit, turns out Google would prefer you to risk bankruptcy for a mistake, no spending limit available from what I understood, ended up going with openrouter and using gemini through them instead
I don't agree plenty of podcast are only on YouTube and twitch and never bother to setup a proper RSS feed, it was so annoying I developed a project to fix it for my self
wsl2 runs under the windows hypervisor as a vm, but so does windows since windows 11. So there should not be much performance issues from running stuff in windows vs wsl2. The major bottleneck is if you need to move files from and to the windows vm to the Linux vm
Nobody is forcing you to use anything I just wanted to underline that the performance hit you mentioned is not really there, as we are in a public forum there is value to keep things factual.
As for why to do it, if you develop on server apps Linux is the standard (as an example redis does not have a windows native version), and I say this as a developer of Windows based microsevices on the cloud, my company is actively looking to migrate to Linux due to lack of tooling in the windows space (and also licence cost of windows server), like it or not that is the way it goes. If you don't need it great for you, but for other of us those layers are life saver
I've got a cryptominer in one of my personal selfhosted container of a github project meant to be used with a vpn only, due to this insecure by default choice of docker. Still salty about it...
If you are using buildx+QEMU for compiling your much better off cross-compiling inside the native architecture of github actions and the export the result to a build step that emulates the architecture:
I went form cross compilation that took 2 hours to 10 minutes total
You can follow my Dockerfile of my project as an example on how to do it
Rust is great for writing stuff that needs to be stable with little downtime, for anything that needs to change a lot rust is not there yet, it has lots of sharp corners like not being able to make a factory interface that returns another interface (thogh this is coming in a few months), in general it's hard to do non-leaky abstractions in rust ATM, I do think it will get there in a few years once the few sharp corners are gone.
But having made a microservice in rust it is the most stable software I ever written, you are basically paying upfront any null reference and thread safety issue I would have needed to debug. It probably did not save me time, but it definitely was a better experience to write
