Well you use the right tool for the job. I hope to god you're not using a Makefile for a Java or Scala project. You better be using Gradle, SBT or Maven. If yo

Well you use the right tool for the job. I hope to god you're not using a Makefile for a Java or Scala project. You better be using Gradle, SBT or Maven. If you're building in Elixir, I hope you're using Mix and not a Makefile. If you're building in Rust, I hope you're using Cargo, or some other Rust specific build tool. And Makefiles do get stupid complicated when you need things portable and to work on Linux, Mac and FreeBSD; or allow them to have optional dependencies. That's why we have autoconf and all that ./configure && make && make install craziness.