Hmm, same here. Make is my go-to toll for writing top-level instructions on how to deal with a collection of files. (re)constructing data files (including dep

Hmm, same here. Make is my go-to toll for writing top-level instructions on how to deal with a collection of files. (re)constructing data files (including dependency tracking of course), compiling files (implicit rules are great!) and all sort of things needing to go into the toplevel directory of a project. Its easy to write, almost no syntax overhead. Compare that to ant :-) And it can get arbitrarily complex if you need it to be. Projects like buildroot are a wonderful example of how much you can actually do with Makefiles, while staying relatively readable... Sure, if you are working in big tech, your code base is likely so large now that you want ninja or some other modern build system. But for the rest of us, Make is really sufficient and actually great value for the money...