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The fact that everyone goes out of their way to reinvent this really goes to show how awful the Make experience is.
by throwaway02318 6y ago
The fact that everyone goes out of their way to reinvent this really goes to show how awful the Make experience is.
- nightfly 6y agoUnless you're working on something complex, Make is pretty great. My only complaint as a regular use is the lack of support for spaces in target names.
- gnulinux 6y agoI have a pretty awesome experience with make. If you use it for what it's designed for i.e. building files from a graph of dependencies, it's pretty handy. I use for auto-generated code, binary code as well as tasks that depend on other tasks, such as logging into system A requires getting this key from AWS etc. Most people have bash shortcuts for simple scripts to automate things, I instead write Makefiles, since it seems closer to my mental model, you want to do X but doing X depends on resources Y Z T, make figures out the rest.