> Make is language agnostic and that's a huge benefit, it means you have to learn about just one build tool and its peculiarities and that will allow you to bui

> Make is language agnostic and that's a huge benefit, it means you have to learn about just one build tool and its peculiarities and that will allow you to build many different projects in different languages. You need to learn the Make build tool (easy) and then you need to learn bash scripting to get anywhere (argh!). The OP has linked an example Makefile and I wouldn't be able to maintain/debug it without reading plenty of manpages: https://github.com/Financial-Times/n-makefile/blob/master/Makefile https://github.com/Financial-Times/n-makefile/blob/master/Ma...