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Don't besmirch the good name of Cygwin, I daily drove that for Python development for 2 years and it worked shockingly well. In retrospect I think I liked Cygwi
by lelandbatey 2y ago
Don't besmirch the good name of Cygwin, I daily drove that for Python development for 2 years and it worked shockingly well. In retrospect I think I liked Cygwin more than I liked WSL because I really could interoperate my Linux/Windows together nearly seamlessly. But I think that was because I was operating and using tools right in the sweet spot of the Cygwin abstraction; e.g. no GUI programs, sockets/file work only.
- rahen 2y agoAgreed. For a long time, Cygwin was the best Unix userland. It also fit conveniently into a single folder, allowing multiple portable environments on the same machine. Mingw was pretty nice too.