When comparing WAMP vs Vagrant, the Slant community recommends WAMP for most people. In the question“What are the best Windows web development environment for PHP?” WAMP is ranked 5th while Vagrant is ranked 8th.
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Pros
Pro Lightweight
Pro Easy-to-use
There's no hassle in unzipping files or anything - you simply run an installer, and you're done. Additionally, you can install new features (such as PHP 8), and even update, simply by downloading .exe files from a certain repo and running them.
Pro Once correctly configured it is easy to expand the system and add new Projects
We chose this setup for our professional Drupal development workflow because it gives the most accurate representation of a deployment server, thus minimizing any development faults.
Pro Cross-platform portability
Allows to work with coding tools of your choice, on any underlying platform and create portable virtualized soft dev environments that will work equally well on any operating system, be it Windows, MacOS or Linux.
Cons
Con Windows-only
WAMP runs on Windows only.
Con If you want to quickly get a PHP Environment going, this is not the best choice
You have to do some distinct editing of settings files in order to make it run the way you want.