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I've uses my fair share of build tools and I think makefiles are horrible. Stringly typed, ad-hoc features, and a really bad language from a PL perspective. Wr

by zodiac 8y ago

I've uses my fair share of build tools and I think makefiles are horrible. Stringly typed, ad-hoc features, and a really bad language from a PL perspective. Writing good build systems is genuinely hard, and I think make is not a good build system.

mcguire 8y ago
It is, unfortunately, better than most of its successors, at least in terms of generality.