What is Cygwin?
It is a POSIX-compatible environment that runs natively on Microsoft Windows. Its goal is to allow programs of Unix-like systems to be recompiled and run natively on Windows with minimal source code modifications by providing them with the same underlying POSIX API they would expect in those systems.
Cygwin is a tool in the Operating Systems category of a tech stack.
Cygwin is an open source tool with 23 GitHub stars and 7 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Cygwin's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Cygwin?
Companies
Developers
24 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Cygwin.
Cygwin Integrations
Cygwin's Features
- A dynamic-link library
- API compatibility layer
- Color Depths
Cygwin Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Cygwin?
Putty
It is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.
PowerShell
A command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. Helps system administrators and power-users rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
