That's what I thought -- I thought that OS X was the main Unix where it is "annoying" to get a C compiler (huge XCode thing IIRC), and it isn't used for servers

That's what I thought -- I thought that OS X was the main Unix where it is "annoying" to get a C compiler (huge XCode thing IIRC), and it isn't used for servers much. But people have told me stories about working for the government (my background was more "big tech", and video games, which are both extremely different) Some government/defense systems are extremely locked down, and they don't have C compilers So people make do with crazy shell script hacks. This is obviously suboptimal, but it is not that surprising in retrospect!