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While WSL1 had a bunch of compatibility caveats, WSL2 is just a VM. It's generally safe to assume that everything is compatible until evidence surfaces otherwise.

It should be, there's a Linux and a Windows release at https://github.com/chriswalz/bit/releases - you could just run it natively without WSL though?

I'm not sure. I encourage you to try it out. If it ends up not working please file an issue and we'll get it sorted out.

Will do, I’ll give it a shot sometime this week and report back.

Still not sure how much of a niche WSL is, but it’s my daily driver.

WSL2 is barely esoteric at all, especially because it's hard to find anything that works in your chosen linux distro that doesn't work in it (except GUI has to be set up separately). WSL1 that's a bit more hit-and-miss, anything not quite low-level should be fine though.

Incidentally, I've actually found it much less painful to use urvxt through VcXsrv for WSL than anything else. The config at that point is just identical to my linux boxes but it interacts with windows in normal, sane ways and X11 programs generally run just fine