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The biggest difference to me is: Gow is amazingly FAST!

I have used MinGW and it is extremly slow, I need to always remind myself to use dir instead of ls, otherwise it's a few seconds' wait.

However, I do not think Gow is able to compile. (I did not really look into the documentation as github is blocked in my office.)

Another difference is MinGW appears to provide more up-to-date binary. e.g. bash in MinGW is 3.1 and in Gow is 2.03. And vim in Gow is 6.3 only.




Sorry, but... GitHub is blocked in your office!?!




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