alt Hacker NewsJust use ssh from Cygwin. DLL hell was rarely a problem, just always install everything via setup.exe.
The single biggest problem it has is slow forking. I learned to write my scripts in pure bash as much as possible, or as a composition of streaming executables, and avoid executing an executable per line of input or similar.
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fc417fc802 • today at 12:12 PM
Slow forking is only the second biggest problem IMO. The biggest is the lack of proper signals. There's a bunch of software out there that just isn't architected to work well without non-cooperative preemption.
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Try using the Windows busybox port of "Bash":
https://frippery.org/busybox/index.html
It has a subset of bash implemented on Ash/Dash. Arrays are not supported, but it is quite fast.
The forking problem is still present, though.