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It lets developers on Windows also build and test your package in parallel mode. If you make your build scripts bash, they're Linux-only.

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> if you make your build scripts bash, they’re Linux only

Git bash exists on windows and is perfectly usable.

It's still much less dependable compared to something fully supported like Bun.

I’m no bash lover, but I’ve used git bash as my primary driver on windows for I don’t know many years. It has its quirks (like any tool) but I don’t think I’d say it’s less dependable. Anecdotally I’ve had way more issues with node on windows than I have with git bash and node is fully supported.

Fully supported, until they sell it to someone.

I mean, Anthropic now own it

Yes, bash is the near-universal language for build scripts as long as git is the near-universal source control tool.

That is an interesting point... but if I do development on windows it usually happens inside WSL :)

Seriously, my number one windows shell is WSL. Distant second and third are cmd and powershell which I only use to diagnose WSL issue.

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