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It's hell for those of us outside of the Unix ecosystem. I have MSYS on my Windows machine and make works only half of the time. Also the learning curve is jus
by demarq 12y ago
It's hell for those of us outside of the Unix ecosystem. I have MSYS on my Windows machine and make works only half of the time.
Also the learning curve is just not as easy, nor the files as readable. With Gulp and Grunt you are exploiting the fact that almost everyone can write a couple of lines of JavaScript. The only thing you are adding is an api composed of three to four functions.
If you look at make on the other hand, you'll need to learn quite a lot.
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
- Guillaume86 12y agoYes I'm on windows and already had the case of a npm package I would have liked to contribute but the build process was using make, couldn't make it work... It's a bit disapointing when you have a very good multiplatform ecosystem to see stuff like that, sometimes it's people "forgetting" there's also windows (and I can get that), but some other times it's just a big "fuck you windows user".
- jcbrand 12y agoThe general sentiment has been "fuck you linux user" for so long now, it's funny to see how things have changed in the last 15 years or so.
- Guillaume86 12y agoI'm not sure what precisly you're referring to (proprietary software/drivers?), I love linux, used it almost exclusively for 5 years before my current .NET job. I'm talking here about pure javascript npm packages, something you can legitimatly expect to be able to build on windows and yet some people make childish judgements on windows users and choose tools which exclude a part of the community (not always the case or the reason but it happens). On a similar subject, I stopped counting the times I've seen someone get told to get a Mac when discussing a problem on cross platform tools.