I have used make extensively for two decades, and every year I come to love it more. It doesn't work well with some language designs, like Java, but Java is its

I have used make extensively for two decades, and every year I come to love it more. It doesn't work well with some language designs, like Java, but Java is its own world and doesn't want to play with anything else, so that's fine. I use it a lot to make one-off data analyses somewhat reproducible. To make them fully reproducible I use docker run for each command invocation, but sometimes I skip that step. Something like airflow is way too verbose and clunky compared to make for my use cases.