[jen20]

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.

[robbyt]

For 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]

While 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.

[cweagans]

"Available" and "available by default" are two different things, and GP didn't claim the latter.

[mkesper]

Well, by default, nothing is available on windows.