The author mentions it, and I highly recommend anybody interested in build systems read the seminal paper Build Systems A La Carte [1], which breaks down variou

The author mentions it, and I highly recommend anybody interested in build systems read the seminal paper Build Systems A La Carte [1], which breaks down various build systems (including Excel!) into their component concepts, and along the way finds a new feature-space that hadn't been explored. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/03/build-systems.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0... (an understanding of Haskell is recommended to understand the implementations, but not required to understand the concepts)