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by caleblloyd 1142 days ago
PowerShell 7 can be installed on Linux and MacOS! Native too, not like cygwin bash.

Around the same time that came out, so did WSL so I never really learned PowerShell because now it's so easy to run real bash on Windows.
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nocman 1141 days ago
> Native too, not like cygwin bash.

Are you suggesting that cygwin's bash is not "native"? It isn't installed by default, obviously, but it is a native Windows executable, as are the other command-line tools generally installed with it.

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glandium 1141 days ago
cygwin has a different ABI, and does weird things for its POSIX compatibility. In that sense, it's not native.
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