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by miohtama 302 days ago
In the past, part of the definition of an operating system was that it ships with a compiler.
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When was that ever a part of the definition? It was part of the early Unix culture, sure, but even many contemporary OSes didn't ship with compilers, which were a separate (and often very expensive!) piece of software.

OTOH today most Linux distros don't install any dev tools by default on a clean install. And, ironically, a clean install of Windows has .NET, which includes a C# compiler.