In most situations (not mine), you can likely depend on MacPorts, Homebrew, or Nix to provide more up-to-date version of the tools you need that what Xcode prov

In most situations (not mine), you can likely depend on MacPorts, Homebrew, or Nix to provide more up-to-date version of the tools you need that what Xcode provides. In that way, it's similar to WSL in that you can augment your environment to get the proper Unix tools you expect.