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Those who don't understand Make are condemned to reimplement it, poorly.

• stormbeta 9y ago
  The closest thing I've seen that seem likes a real replacement is Bazel, but I haven't tried using it for anything but a couple toy projects yet. The concepts seem solid though, as expected from Google. My main complaint about make is that relying on timestamps, while fast, is error-prone and doesn't work with idempotent commands that might refresh the timestamp without altering content.