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Eh, different strokes. Every time I have to use Makefiles I yearn for the comparative flexibility and simplicity of the JS ecosystem. Make files just seem good
by abritinthebay 9y ago
Eh, different strokes. Every time I have to use Makefiles I yearn for the comparative flexibility and simplicity of the JS ecosystem.
Make files just seem good to users of the due to experience. They work, but let’s not pretend they’re easy to work with.
- stephenr 9y ago> simplicity of the JS ecosystem [citation needed]
- abritinthebay 9y agoCitation: I work with it every day. You can make it complex but that’s true of everything. It’s not hard or complex to get working initially, or maintain, which is not true of makefiles
- stephenr 9y ago> It’s not hard or complex to get working initially, or maintain, which is not true of makefiles Again, [citation needed]. I use Makefiles in a variety of projects: - building Vagrant base boxes - building environment-specific configuration for LAMP-ish CRUD apps - testing and building a range of shell-script based packages Does Make have some warts? Sure, everything does. I'm not claiming it's perfect. But it's a far sight clearer - to me at least - what's going on with a Makefile. Makefiles also don't need to be replaced by something new in 6 months because the entire community has decided that its time for a new tool to do basically the same thing, solve 1 problem with the old tool and introduce 5 new ones.