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I feel like this whole thread is a bad joke.

Do you know of Unix pipes? The fact that gulp calls all of this "streams" and "pipes" is a seriously bizarre form of NIH.

You might also be interested in make -j option.

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pipes and streams mean something slightly more specify in a node context, but they are actually compatible with Unix streams, which shockingly enough also work well on windows meaning you can string together a make-like build system which works on windows as well (easily, make is not easy on windows)

Not sure what you mean. I've developed Android apps on Windows 7 using Cygwin and make just fine. It's nearly identical to using it on Linux.

You still have to install Cygwin, other solutions require no .dlls

No .dlls, just rewriting everything in Javascript. Because that's so much less invasive than a dll to let you use existing mature solutions

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