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		yellowapple on Dec 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nim vs. Crystal There's a Windows-native version of bash included with the Windows version of Git, no? But yeah, I'd definitely count MinGW (or more modernly, MSYS2) as "native" in this context.

orthoxerox on Dec 26, 2019 [–]

> There's a Windows-native version of bash included with the Windows version of Git, no?

Not really, as it's built against MSYS2 libs, which are a fork of Cygwin.

yellowapple on Dec 27, 2019 | [–]

> I'd definitely count MinGW (or more modernly, MSYS2) as "native" in this context

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