Over the past few months, I've been monitoring a ticket closely. Over the course of two years, the ticket has accrued over 130 votes. It's the one about WSL support in PyCharm, and by extension, the rest of the JetBrains IDEs. When I say it's "the one", it's because this is the probably the most famous ticket with regards to WSL in our tracker. So, the question is, why is this taking so long to implement?
The History of WSL Support
As things stand right now, WSL and WSL2 are both supported on PyCharm. However, the issue is not with the support itself, but rather how it is supported. WSL is