Windows compatibility of seq-lang?

[ppreshant]

Does seq-lang work on windows or do I need to dual boot or put in a virtual machine for Linux to run this software?

If it works on Windows, is there a recommended way to install it? I can imagine doing git clone, a roundabout way to build from source?

I'm new to genomics analysis, encountered this language and was interested to give it a try on my Windows 10 laptop to work with 10,000 read NGS data fastq files

[markhend]

I've had good luck running on Ubuntu in WSL2 on Windows 10.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

Once WSL2 is up and running:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://seq-lang.org/install.sh)"

I would recommend trying this option first.

Another possibility on Ubuntu on WSL2 is to download and unzip a release: https://github.com/seq-lang/seq/releases. This isn't documented and would likely require more effort to get everything running properly.

The online playground works well for trying out code snippets: https://seq-lang.org/index.html

[ppreshant]

Thank you for the helpful response! It might be useful to include in the setup documentation