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> if you install Microsoft's C/C++ dev stack (typically via installing Visual Studio).

So I have to install this huge dependency just to use make, when my project is in Python?

Way easier to install just :-)



You wouldn't use GNU Make (the thing that comes for "default" on Linux) with Python either.

What a weird way to converse.


> You wouldn't use GNU Make (the thing that comes for "default" on Linux) with Python either.

But people do use Make all the time for Python projects - as a command runner. Pelican projects, for example, come with a Makefile to start the server, publish, etc.

The whole point of this submission is that many, many people use Makefiles not for incremental builds, but as a convenient place to store commonly used commands. And just is a better and simpler tool than make for that. If you're on Windows, it's a pain to install make, compared to installing just.




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