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Thanks! That article demystified quite a bit of the magic of Makefiles for me. However, even after 10+ years of professional dev work during which I've regular

by jaza 2y ago

Thanks! That article demystified quite a bit of the magic of Makefiles for me. However, even after 10+ years of professional dev work during which I've regularly crossed paths with Makefiles, they still scare me, and I've still never written one from scratch myself. I cling to bash scripts, which I'm also a rookie at (or, for more complex cases, I write Python scripts, which I'm much more comfortable with). I guess one day I'll read the manual, and digest some tutorials, and actually learn make. But I've made it this far...

lelanthran 2y ago
> However, even after 10+ years of professional dev work during which I've regularly crossed paths with Makefiles, they still scare me, and I've still never written one from scratch myself. Make has its warts (look at when and what it was designed for, after all!), but I've found it much easier to write Makefiles than YAML-for-github-runners. If you're used to YAML, you get pleasantly surprised when using Make, which does execution of dependency trees in a more readable manner than most CI/CD YAML files do.