[aryastark]

I feel like this whole thread is a bad joke.

Do you know of Unix pipes? The fact that gulp calls all of this "streams" and "pipes" is a seriously bizarre form of NIH.

You might also be interested in make -j option.

[cwmma]

pipes and streams mean something slightly more specify in a node context, but they are actually compatible with Unix streams, which shockingly enough also work well on windows meaning you can string together a make-like build system which works on windows as well (easily, make is not easy on windows)

[aryastark]

Not sure what you mean. I've developed Android apps on Windows 7 using Cygwin and make just fine. It's nearly identical to using it on Linux.

[cwmma]

You still have to install Cygwin, other solutions require no .dlls

[pekk]

No .dlls, just rewriting everything in Javascript. Because that's so much less invasive than a dll to let you use existing mature solutions