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Make is in POSIX, so it's generally available. Same reason people write shell scripts (even if the scripts are not generally POSIX-only).


Unless your company forces you to use Windows, which is still much more common than many would like to admit. And yes, WSL exists, but in my experience, if a company is unwilling to allow macOS, there’s a good chance they either don’t allow enabling HyperV, or the security software they use is such garbage that it results in a HyperV enabled system being effectively unusable.


Windows 11 requires Hyper-V turned on, virtualization based security is one of the reasons of the forced hardware upgrades.


Any chance you could provide links to documentation around that? I haven't been able to find anything definitive about exactly what's required and what's enabled by default.


Unless the company also forcefully prevents installation of git bash, you'll have make as well.

I know, I know, what developer on windows uses git via the official git windows client, right? /s


Having make doesn't help much if you don't have the commands that it's calling.




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