Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI understand why someone wouldn't like to use cygwin, but why new project? MSYS/mingw-get are active projects that provide a good base to build upon. Why not helping improve it? Unix tools on Windows is niche enough so that choice only leads to fragmentation, not competition.
Cygwin is a fantastic system put together by people crazy and talented enough to dig deeply into both the POSIX world and the NT world. I can't recommend it highly enough. A bag of ported utilities is absolutely no substitute for something that, in effect, amounts to GNU/NT. Yes, there are some warts, but they're papered over remarkably well. Give mintty a shot: you'll never go back to conhost.
Without a package manager, I really can't see myself using this. Cygwin + apt-cyg is just easy.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 520
- Total comments
- 288
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-11-23 | Lightweight alternative to CygWin | jhchabran | 2 | 0 |
| 2011-12-04 | Gow – The lightweight alternative to CygwinFirst breakout · Best thread | urza | 181 | 93 |
| 2012-06-08 | Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin | shawndumas | 161 | 82 |
| 2013-05-23 | Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin | shawndumas | 1 | 0 |
| 2014-11-08 | Gow – The lightweight alternative to CygwinHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | pmoriarty | 175 | 113 |