Here are some things I love about Make: * Already installed * Does not require some random runtime * Does not require some random runtime version * Same bui

Here are some things I love about Make: * Already installed * Does not require some random runtime * Does not require some random runtime version * Same build system for (nearly) all languages * The dependency tree can be constructed incrementally from simple, composable, verifiable building blocks * Incremental builds are trivial * Task bodies are (basically) shell scripts * Isolated complexity can be moved to external shell scripts and called from a task body * Unlike fad-language-build-systems learning is amortized across decades * It's not CMake