> 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 pro

> 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.