Certainly you can. In fact, the OP did exactly that and his article is at the to...

CoffeeDregs on March 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

Certainly you can. In fact, the OP did exactly that and his article is at the top of HN.

My hope is that we can just carry on with our dev work and Windows will slowly fade away as a platform for developing anything but SharePoint intranets...

[Note: I don't have a neckbeard, but I do run Debian testing.]

recursive on March 25, 2014 [–]

But... but... some of us our doing our development on Windows and loathe Sharepoint.