> Well, I would agree the Netherlands and Sweden are rapidly approaching total collapse
LOL? Despite variations, at least the Netherlands is one of the best run countries on this planet. When the Netherlands will collapse, everyone else will have been under water for many years, already.
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.
Software with small scopes can be finished. It doesn’t sound too complicated to just push a new bug fix each year, by anyone. If anything, make is probably a significantly more complex codebase due to all the hacks it accumulated over the years, as a result of a dumb model it started with.
Gulp? That JS tool that was last cool in 2018? After it which it was replaced with Grunt, which stopped being cool in 2020? And that was replaced with Webpack, ESBuild, Rome, Bun...
Why would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to that kind of insanity? :-))
Better to just use the hacksaw that is Make than all these Rube Goldberg contraptions :-)
I don’t personally care about the JS ecosystem. But OP is already using Gulp. He’s then calling Gulp from npm run. He’s then calling npm run from make. Adding make into the mix is solving nothing here. If you’re saying he should use make properly I agree!
Phew, I was so worried. So for 48 years out of Unix' 53 years of existence (90% of that time), make hasn't been the new kid on the block. Oh, let alone the fact that we're talking about stuff from 48 years ago, when their "screen" was a paper printout of the output.
LOL? Despite variations, at least the Netherlands is one of the best run countries on this planet. When the Netherlands will collapse, everyone else will have been under water for many years, already.
reply