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Add to SafariWhen comparing Gobble vs GNU Make, the Slant community recommends GNU Make for most people. In the question“What are the best Node.js build systems / task runners?” GNU Make is ranked 8th while Gobble is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose GNU Make is:
Make takes advantage of the powerful UNIX shell, using it at it's full potential. STDIN and STDOUT are especially useful because of their versatility.
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Pros
Pro Debuggable
Using Gobble is even easier when you consider the fact that it's extremely debuggable.
Pro Very easy to write plugins
Gobble's API is very easy to learn and very intuitive. This makes it very easy for developers to write different plugins for tasks that they may need.
Pro Uses the full power of the UNIX shell
Make takes advantage of the powerful UNIX shell, using it at it's full potential. STDIN and STDOUT are especially useful because of their versatility.
Pro No need for wrapper modules
Other build tools need wrapper modules to do certain tasks. The biggest disadvantage of these wrapper modules is that they bind you to a version of that tool. With Make you don't have that problem, there's no need for wrappers and no tools to bind you to a version, you can use any version of Make that you want.
Pro Works with more than just node.js
Since it's written in C and can be found in all UNIX-based systems it can be used on platforms other than node.js.
Cons
Con Still in active development
Since Gobble is still in active development it's API may change and it's documentation is not fully ready yet.
Con Doesn't run on Windows by default
Make requires Cygwin/msys2/MinGW to run on Windows.
