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Make has worked on Windows longer than Node.js has existed.

• nicoburns 5y ago
  Make works fine, it's the commands you call from make that don't tend to as compatible. For example, try running rm -rf on windows. It might work if you have GNU tools installed, but it certainly won't work out of the box. On the other hand, the node.js `rimraf` package will do the same thing with no cross-platform compatibility issues.
  • Steltek 5y ago
    When using package.json, does npm intercept a script containing "rm -rf" and translate it to something different?
    • geewee 5y ago
      No, that's why there's a bunch of packages such as rimraf[0] that implements that sort of functionality in a cross-platform way that most people use in their scripts [0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf
    • nicoburns 5y ago
      No, but it does put binaries from any installed node packages in your PATH (locally when running scripts).
• jchw 5y ago
  The history of Make on Windows would Make one think twice about relying on it. What shell do you get when running Make on Windows?