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		oguz-ismail on Sept 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Like Makefiles just is just another dependency. make is available everywhere

OutOfHere on Sept 21, 2024 | [–]

Make is available in a lot of places, but not everywhere. It has to explicitly be installed in containers and in some distributions.

metaltyphoon on Sept 21, 2024 | [–]

I rather have one justfile than have one make and another nmake to support Windows

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