Agreed. I personally reach for Makefiles in exactly one situation: in research, when I’d like to collect lots of results from many computational experiments to

Agreed. I personally reach for Makefiles in exactly one situation: in research, when I’d like to collect lots of results from many computational experiments to make some plots or tables. I might have the whole process of re-running the experiments and rebuilding the final manuscript driven by Make. But even for this task, it feels pretty awkward and painful. I did try using Scons for the same purpose but didn’t like it as much.