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You mean like https://www.cygwin.com/ https://www.cygwin.com/ ?

• brundolf 6y ago
  The way Cygwin is implemented is a bit different from what I mean. My thinking is a shell that doesn't even try to be binary-compatible, it only tries to be "UI"-compatible
  • tubularhells 6y ago
    That makes no sense. Please try to rephrase.
    • brundolf 6y ago
      Tab-autocomplete works the same way Command-history works the same way Pipes and angle bracket operators work the same way Setting env variables inline works the same way All the familiar basic commands for getting around (cd, ls, cat, etc) are present and work the same way (same flags, same output format, etc) All the little things that trip you up when you just try and use cmd.exe to do something simple would work the way you expect them to from bash. Everything that doesn't translate falls back to the normal Windows behavior. 80% of the benefit, 20% of the effort/complexity
      • tubularhells 6y ago
        No idea what that would take, I haven't had the honour of working in a windows environment in a decade.