Make is fantastic. I’m using it to rebuild and run containers in my development environment, and to build a full repository of RPM packages (that my project nee

Make is fantastic. I’m using it to rebuild and run containers in my development environment, and to build a full repository of RPM packages (that my project needs and which CentOS Stream lacks). I suppose that if javascript tooling was more amenable to process one file at a time, I could do parallel transpiling and bundling of a hefty frontend with make as well. I also use its metaprogramming and late evaluation capabilities a lot, heavily inspired by the tricks Buildroot is doing. If you are mindful of its restrictions (it works with “words” separated by spaces, thus paths with spaces in them are a problem unfixable without severely breaking backward compatibility; and your targets need to be expressible as files with meaningful modification timestamps), it’s a very powerful tool. It deserves more appreciation.