2 ms·
The problem is that most people don't set out to be masters of make. They just want to get their shit built so they can make forward progress on the thing they
by vvanders 9y ago
The problem is that most people don't set out to be masters of make. They just want to get their shit built so they can make forward progress on the thing they want to create.
Having to learn all of these subtleties is what gets you into these problems in the first place. I'll happily take a more opinionated build tool with proper escape hatches over something that expects you to know it in detail for even the most basic tasks.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoI really hate this attitude. The same people who don't grok Make also don't grok git or bourne shell or who knows what else. Don't take shortcuts in understanding the fundamental tools of your stack. Your build system is just as important to your project as the code it's building!
- vvanders 9y agoMake is only a fundamental tool if that's what your library/binary uses. You may have a mix of CMake, MSVC and language specific build tools like Cargo and others. By your logic I should be an expert in all of them. Make's support outside of the posix world isn't that great(as opposed to CMake) so calling it fundamental seems that you are making assumptions about the environments that development happens in.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago>You may have a mix of CMake, MSVC and language specific build tools like Cargo and others. By your logic I should be an expert in all of them. Correct. >Make's support outside of the posix world The world outside of posix doesn't really matter.
- vvanders 9y agoThat's a pretty narrow world view you have then.