Because Make is perfect for 99% of cases. And adding the extra 1% of features would be a mountain of extra work and complexity. Bazel does that, but I don't wor

Because Make is perfect for 99% of cases. And adding the extra 1% of features would be a mountain of extra work and complexity. Bazel does that, but I don't work on anything that needs its complexity, so for me and most other projects it wouldn't be a step forward. Make is great. Even has a debugger: https://remake.readthedocs.io/en/latest/debugger.html https://remake.readthedocs.io/en/latest/debugger.html