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by BeetleB 556 days ago
You can use the usual cmd (I do). You're not limited to Powershell. Also, you do understand that if a tool has first class support for Windows, that does mean it prioritizes Windows tools, right? Imagine I made a command runner, and said it has "excellent Linux support", and then someone comes along and complains that you have to install Powershell on Linux to use Windows recipes.

You can have Windows only recipes and Linux only recipes.

Furthermore, if you have bash installed on Windows (e.g. via git bash), you can put a shebang in your recipes to use bash.

We develop in Windows and deploy in Linux. Most of our recipes work in both OS's - either we use bash or Python for the recipe. The few that don't - we just mark as Windows only or Linux only so they're not available in the wrong OS.

> So not only do you need just installed, which is yet another dependency,

You do realize that Windows by default comes with almost no development tools, right? So yes, you do actually need to install things to get work done. The horror.

I'll also note that while you complain about just, you provide no alternative.

Weirdest rant ever.