There's no pre-installed compilers on it (at least as of 2013) and Homebrew needed me to install XCode first before it could do anything.
Admittedly I stopped looking into it and just shelfed the laptop until requesting a saner one.
Admittedly I stopped looking into it and just shelfed the laptop until requesting a saner one.
But more to the point. Even if you didn’t know about that option you gave up because you didn’t want to sign up for a free account?