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I 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.

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This is exactly what I also thought when I read the headline. And this becomes even more strange given that they are almost certainly building upon using MinGW.

I have used MinGW, and MinGW is terribly slow comparing to Gow. Do a simple "ls" you will feel the difference. Not to mention bash.

In your statement, you are confusing MinGW with MSYS. But I see your point.

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