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by tacos 3666 days ago
Cygwin is quite slow due to problems emulating fork (large builds take forever!), plus the package support is spotty. I'm excited because I can eventually ditch Cygwin and VMs for much of my Linux compatibility testing and cross-platform work. And I'm glad Microsoft is finally putting some effort into this long-neglected area.

For the moment, I'm still stuck with Cygwin, shaking my head a bit too.