> It's really not that complicated... …until it is. I usually reach for make because it’s simple to get a simple project built but once I start throwing stuff

> It's really not that complicated... …until it is. I usually reach for make because it’s simple to get a simple project built but once I start throwing stuff like source code generators at it then I have to spend a bunch of time getting the dependency tree right so I’m not chasing bugs I’ve already fixed but didn’t get recompiled. Or recompile the whole thing when I change some trivial thing. Still, for the stuff I do, it gets the job done without too much trouble.