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> Who exactly do you think is making tooling like npm, webpack, babel..? Almost 0% of web developers. As I have said. Repeatedly. For every one person buildi
by yakshaving_jgt 8y ago
> Who exactly do you think is making tooling like npm, webpack, babel..?
Almost 0% of web developers.
As I have said. Repeatedly.
For every one person building one of these tools, there’s at least 100 developers using it, not actually contributing to it.
Not a difficult concept to grasp.
> Sure, many more will use than make, but that's true of EVERY tool that is made.
Yes. I know. Obviously
> Do you think the majority of people using make contribute to writing make?
Obviously not. And this further proves my point. JavaScript developers can use Make to build their JavaScript. It doesn’t matter what language Make is implemented in.
Are you following yet?
- tracker1 8y agoI write tools. I choose to write in the platform(s) of MY choice. Are YOU following yet? TFA chose to write a tool in THEIR platform of choice. If you want something different, write it your fucking self.
- tracker1 8y agoAside: every open-source project I've worked on that uses make as it's primary script/build pipeline interface doesn't work correctly on mac, windows or many linux environments. npm happens to run on windows, linux and mac with minimal problems. Also, the tools in TFA are something someone spent time on creating, that serves a purpose that works within the tooling that most of the people that would use the tool already use... and all you've done is poop on that because it doesn't fit your preconceived notions of what the "right" language/platform is.