> I've seen plenty of unmanageable Makefiles, but I haven't seen another system that would make them inherently cleaner. Not to push the particular product, bu

> I've seen plenty of unmanageable Makefiles, but I haven't seen another system that would make them inherently cleaner. Not to push the particular product, but the approach: FAKE (https://fake.build/ https://fake.build/), is an F# "Make" system that takes a fundamentally different tack to handling the complexity. Instead of having a new, restricted, purpose built language they've implemented a build DSL in F# scripts. That yields build scripts that are strongly typed, just-in-time compiled, have full access to the .Net ecosystem and all your own code libraries, and are implemented in a first class functional language. That is to say: you can bring the full force of programming and abstraction to handle arbitrarily complex situations using the same competencies that one uses for coding. As the build file grows in complexity and scope it can be refactored, and use functionality integrated into your infrastructure code, in the same way programs are refactored and improved to make them manageable. The result is something highly accessible, supportive, and aggressively positioned for modern build chains... If you can do it in .Net, you can do it in FAKE.