I've programmed in the early heyday when Make was my ONLY option and I'm primarily a C++ developer. These days? No thanks. I don't want to return to that hell.

I've programmed in the early heyday when Make was my ONLY option and I'm primarily a C++ developer. These days? No thanks. I don't want to return to that hell. Any technology is "slim" if you cherry-pick just one feature. By any reasonable definition, make is filled with warts and all sorts of tricks that are REQUIRED for any non-trivial project that supports multiple platforms to work. It is old crufty technology and I'll take my chances with other options thanks. You're free to love make all you want, but I've been there, was effectively held hostage by it for lack of better options, and hate it. Automake and asociated tools was the first attempt at getting us out of that hell, and it didn't succeed but cmake/premake/bazel are doing a whole lot better.