[notpushkin]

I kinda like these make-ish systems, but they all have one problem: Make is already on any Linux and Mac, and is pretty easy to get on Windows as well. (It’s a real pity they don’t include it in the Git Bash!) Just using the lowest common denominator is a big argument for Make IMO.

[kaba0]

You have to handle dependencies either way to build a project - what’s one more tiny executable?

This criticism might make sense for some non-vim editor because you might have to ssh into a remote location where you can’t install stuff. But if you should be able to build a project and thus install its required dependencies, then you might as well add one additional word to the install command.

[oblio]

On Windows if you don't use WSL, Cygwin gets you 95% of the way there. I've been using it for decades to develop CLI tools and backbends in Python and a few other languages. You learn the quirks in about 1 month, add some tooling like apt-cyg and map C: to /c and you're off to the races.

[notpushkin]

Yeah, I liked Cygwin too when I was on Windows myself!

[EE84M3i]

I thought `make` was not in the base install for Ubuntu, Debian or MacOS?