Makefiles are mostly declarative and very definitely turing complete when you want that. That's a good compromise, simple stuff is simple and complex stuff is p

Makefiles are mostly declarative and very definitely turing complete when you want that. That's a good compromise, simple stuff is simple and complex stuff is possible. All a rigidly non-turin-complete build tool means is the day will come where you have to throw it away and rewrite everything in a more powerful language, probably at the last minute and with a bunch of fires taking light around you.