> They tend to have poor windows support Does Windows claim POSIX compatibility these days? I didn't think so? I remember NT's old POSIX subsystem, but is th

> They tend to have poor windows support Does Windows claim POSIX compatibility these days? I didn't think so? I remember NT's old POSIX subsystem, but is that even a thing anymore? > My take on POSIX utilities would be only to use them on Linux platforms I mean, only use them on POSIX-compliant systems. Linux is just one of them. At the risk of sounding childishly derisive, when someone is talking about "portability", I think they're generally not bothering to include Windows in the mix, as Windows doesn't really share all that much of a common denominator with much else.