> The syntax for make files and target deps are also very complex "Do I want to use % or $ or @?" How is this any more complex than any programming language?

> The syntax for make files and target deps are also very complex "Do I want to use % or $ or @?" How is this any more complex than any programming language? Take javascript. Do I want to use =, ==, or ===? > I cannot test if my Makefile will run on a developer's mac if I don't have a mac myself and even then it's a crap shoot (do they have homebrew? is their PATH correct? etc). Containers suffer from these kinds of problems as well. For example, if your ip tables are not set up just so, you get no network access from inside your container.