In August 2016, Microsoft released Windows 10 Anniversary Update that included a novel technology to enable developing and running Linux apps: Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Microsoft has acknowledged that a vast majority of the Open Source development projects (PHP included) are based on Unix derived operating systems, GNU/ Linux being the most popular one. And ultimately I would deploy to a Linux production environment where the app might behave just a bit differently. Compared to macOS, with its BSD underpinnings, Windows is just from a different world from the Unix realm that PHP stems from. While these efforts have enabled PHP development on the most popular desktop operating system, to me they've always felt non-native. Over the years there have been a number of efforts to improve this: WAMP, Vagrant, Docker… the list goes on and on. However to me the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) development experience on Windows was always a bit lackluster. And the simple code-refresh-code cycle remains compelling to this day. Arguably PHP owes its popularity to the developer experience.
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