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This may be obvious to you, and I am trying not to put words in your mouth.

Linux and UNIX doesn't build tooling this way, because they believe that you make one tool to do one thing well, and these things you mention while related are not one thing. You'd use the OS as an IDE in this context.

The mindset is changing over time, systemd, vscode, etc.



No they don't, this is cargo cult from UNIX FOSS community based on a famous book remark.

No commercial UNIX has ever followed that mantra.


> No commercial UNIX has ever followed that mantra.

No commercial UNIX besides macOS/iOS has enjoyed anywhere near GNU/Linux's success, either.


I dunno man, gcc as a binary, make as a binary, shell as a binary, wget, up2date, dnf .. its not integrated...




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