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> but it works That it what a lot of SW developers forget: your code might be the best in the world, but , if someone is not able to build it, it is useless.
by hulitu 2y ago
> but it works
That it what a lot of SW developers forget: your code might be the best in the world, but , if someone is not able to build it, it is useless.
- wruza 2y agoI remember countless times me and forum fellas debugging makefiles written under developers’ assumptions about systems. That is also what lots of developers forget or simply aren’t aware of. Make isn’t a silver bullet for builds. It isn’t even a bullet. Most software gets built from scratch and make’s deps graph makes little to zero sense in this mode. Make is a quirky poor dev tool footgun, jack of all trades master of none.
- kaba0 2y agoMake leaves the actual hard problem behind — setting up the environment correctly. A README file is much more useful.