make's not bad! most of the intended replacements have the surprising quality of actually being worse. two attempts to actually improve the state of the art i'

make's not bad! most of the intended replacements have the surprising quality of actually being worse. two attempts to actually improve the state of the art i've found interesting are tup and (the various implementations of) redo. may be newer well-thought out stuff, too. ...but i'm blissfully unaware & unneeding of the latest make-tool developments these days, coding simple Go and obj-c stuff :)