Make is like the Lisp of the build world. It's powerful and you can build anything with it, but it won't be compatible with anyone else's stuff the way it would

Make is like the Lisp of the build world. It's powerful and you can build anything with it, but it won't be compatible with anyone else's stuff the way it would be in a more opinionated system, so you can't leverage other peoples' work much. I used make for decades, then switched to CMake, got burned too many times, and now I've moved on to Meson. There really isn't a good build system for C/C++, which is a shame :/