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This is patently untrue. Make is not available by default on Windows, which - whether you like it or not - matters as a platform for a large number of developer
by jen20 7y ago
This is patently untrue. Make is not available by default on Windows, which - whether you like it or not - matters as a platform for a large number of developers.
_Fortunately_ some CI images (certainly GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps) install GNU Make on their windows images by default, but it absolutely cannot be assumed for average developers.
- cweagans 7y ago"Available" and "available by default" are two different things, and GP didn't claim the latter.
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- robbyt 7y agoFor the sake of this argument, windows support doesn't really matter. If you're forced to use Windows for a job- that sucks. You're probably used to doing lots of silly things just to get a reasonable development environment. It's like saying Make is a bad system because it doesn't support left-to-right languages like Hebrew or Arabic.
- jen20 7y agoWhile I have in the past shared this view (and vocalised it at Microsoft events...), I’m not so sure that dismissing the majority operating system is such a good idea if you want a project to gain traction.
- mkesper 7y agoWell, by default, nothing is available on windows.