I mostly don’t miss wsl on Mac because most software I use works well in both Linux and Mac, just not windows. When I want to test something on linux from my Mac, I use and recommend Canonical’s multipass.
macOS doesn’t have support for cgroups / containers however, so you are stuck running a vm to achieve this. wsl runs a vm as well but requires much less care and attention.
It is odd because it seems that macOS should be able to provide a better Linux development experience but right now, Microsoft seems to care about this immensely more than Apple.
Apple cares about macOS and iOS developers, whereas Microsoft's tech stack is aimed at Web Developers to try to make the development experience with Azure seamless. Apple couldn't care less if your Node backend runs well on their machines
