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You can't write a blog article about make while comparing it to a bunch of Node.js build tools and not mention the word Windows once. Make is good for you becau
by Touche 13y ago
You can't write a blog article about make while comparing it to a bunch of Node.js build tools and not mention the word Windows once. Make is good for you because you're not an open-source project built on a cross-platform development platform. All of your employees use Macs and your servers are Linux. For OS Node projects make is simply out of the question because it is janky on Windows and every makefile ever written is full of bashisms.
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- CoffeeDregs 13y agoCertainly you can. In fact, the OP did exactly that and his article is at the top of HN. My hope is that we can just carry on with our dev work and Windows will slowly fade away as a platform for developing anything but SharePoint intranets... [Note: I don't have a neckbeard, but I do run Debian testing.]
- recursive 13y agoBut... but... some of us our doing our development on Windows and loathe Sharepoint.
- tomgruner 13y agoYou will save so much time developing node if you install Ubuntu with virtual box and vagrant. All are free, and then you can really participate in the os world without having to hack everything to work on windows.