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> You needed to install Cygwin Just install Ubuntu Shell. Also, it's not like you don't need to install iTerm, zsh, docker, python libraries etc on mac. It's

> You needed to install Cygwin Just install Ubuntu Shell. Also, it's not like you don't need to install iTerm, zsh, docker, python libraries etc on mac. It's not like it comes with them by default. Your argument is kind of moot.

djd20 9y ago
A good terminal and python are both standard with OSX. Though I agree having homebrew does make life easier. Don't think Windows has an equivalent...
- phit_ 9y ago
  chocolatey
- schappim 9y ago
  Perhaps it was more the underlying compiler tool chain. With the compilers included in MacOS you can install nearly anything.
vog 9y ago
That's an interesting point. Mabye Homebrew, and its predecessors, were the real killer apps for mac?
vetinari 9y ago
You do not need to install iTerm and zsh; Terminal.app and bash will do the job just fine, alternate terminal and shell are just preferences. cmd.exe and conhost.exe won't do the job.
- indeed30 9y ago
  Also zsh is pre-installed with the latest few versions of OS X anyway.
stinky613 9y ago
In addition to all the typical Bash tools, you also have C/C++/Objective-C, Apache, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, SQLite, and Apache. Maybe I just don't remember installing it, but I think macs have zsh out-of-the-box too.
- fetbaffe 9y ago
  For PHP, MySQL and Apache on Windows I just unzip three different zip files and and then add some standard configuration. Done.