My biggest disappointment with make, and almost all it’s clones, is that I have to manually write out pre-reqs and targets. My computer knows what files I read

My biggest disappointment with make, and almost all it’s clones, is that I have to manually write out pre-reqs and targets. My computer knows what files I read and write. Use that to calculate what you should do. Some systems head in this direction — there is “tup”, and a Python program I love called fabricate ( https://github.com/brushtechnology/fabricate https://github.com/brushtechnology/fabricate ), that records what a program reads, then doesn’t rerun it if no input has changed.