For decades, Windows developers existed in a separate command-line universe. But today, typing Unix staples like ls, cat, and grep into a Windows terminal is routine. According to Hackaday's Al Williams, this seemingly simple convenience represents a decades-long evolution—from third-party workarounds to native system capabilities—that fundamentally changed how developers work across platforms.

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