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Re:Just: A Command Runner by rosszurowski on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:29PM (#34318058)
Same! The fact that Make is pre-installed everywhere and you can create a consistent interface to tasks across projects is a big win.

I wrote a post about that here: https://rosszurowski.com/log/2022/makefiles

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Re:Just: A Command Runner by dragonwriter on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:54PM (#34318814)
> Make is pre-installed everywhere

No, its not, and Just supports Windows, where that is particularly true.

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Re:Just: A Command Runner by falcolas on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:37PM (#34319184)
Make also has a windows version, it just needs to be installed, just like Just.
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Re:Just: A Command Runner by jakelazaroff on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:48PM (#34320651)
Okay, but a ton of people are saying “make comes preinstalled on every system” as the reason to choose it over something like Just.
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Re:Just: A Command Runner by rcarmo on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:54AM (#34321798)
Because, statistically, it is true. Pretty much every POSIX machine under the sun has make available.
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Re:Just: A Command Runner by jakelazaroff on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:33AM (#34325402)
GP and GGP were talking about Windows, which is a significant portion of all machines so I don’t see how you can say that’s statistically true?
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