Having spent some time working on build tools at my current company, I agree with some of those, and have repeated some others. That's pretty deliberate though,

Having spent some time working on build tools at my current company, I agree with some of those, and have repeated some others. That's pretty deliberate though, software is designed to meet a set of needs and for ours assumptions like "we never need to build on Windows" are fine. Making assumptions (some of which the author surprisingly doesn't capture well, like "file timestamps are monotonically increasing") which ultimately lead to incorrect builds are much less acceptable though.