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I never understood the excitement for grunt/gulp/etc. People are reinventing Makefiles.
by fsk 11y ago
I never understood the excitement for grunt/gulp/etc. People are reinventing Makefiles.
- andrezsanchez 11y agoYou're correct that there is probably more excitement for them then there ought to be, considering the simplicity of bash. People ought to create more programs following the UNIX philosophy, which can be chained together using simple pipes. There are, however, cases where you simply need to use code. In these cases I'd rather use the language I'm developing in rather than bash. I haven't used Brunch for more than a simple project, so I can't really comment on it too much. I have used Gulp though, and I commend its authors for creating great abtractions following the UNIX philosophy in this context.