[papito]

Also - Make will exist pretty much in any Unix-based environment. Any alternatives will require prerequisite installation of things.

Although, I work in a team where a lot of devs are on Windows, and they complain about it.

[throwaway894345]

I'm pretty sure MacOS and most of the headless Linux distributions require you to install it (from a package manager or similar). It's not hard, but usually the alternatives aren't hard to install either.

[papito]

I've never had that issue. Make existed on all Mac systems I've worked on. Perhaps it got pulled in via other tools, but recently I ran into an issue with the Make on my Mac, and only because the version out of the box is a 3.x, from 2006.

[throwaway894345]

I might be mistaken about MacOS, but it definitely doesn't exist on centos, ubuntu, debian, or alpine--at least not their headless/server variants.

[toast0]

You can run into issues with BSD Make being provided, but needing GNU Make though. Not hard to work through, though.

[tomcam]

> Although, I work in a team where a lot of devs are on Windows, and they complain about it.

Interesting. Is WSL somehow not up to running make compatibly?

[dlivingston]

What do Windows devs prefer instead of Make?

[kemitche]

From my experience, clicking the "build" button (or using the equivalent keyboard shortcut) in Visual Studio.

[papito]

Pain.