Well if Cygwin  weren&#x27;t a  terrible mess, maybe we&#x27;d be using it more?  It&#x27;s universally reviled by most folks actually on the Windows platform.<p>The value of this is that it works easily, portably, and with minimal overhead.<p>By bigger question is, why does posix sh deserve to win?  It&#x27;s plaintext pipes  approach is really frustrating in 2016.