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I love just. The main benefit for me at work is that it's much easier to convince others to use, unlike make. I like make just fine, and it's useful to learn,

I love just. The main benefit for me at work is that it's much easier to convince others to use, unlike make. I like make just fine, and it's useful to learn, but it's also a very opaque language to someone who may not even have very much shell experience. I've frequently found Makefiles scattered around a repo – which do still work, to be clear – with no known ownership, the knowledge of their creation lost with the person who wrote them, and subsequently left.

biztos 2y ago
I'm hoping for this effect, as more and more I work with people who don't consider `make` the default (or, more often, have never heard of it). But I think the hard part -- for any build system -- is achieving the ubiquity `make` had back in the day. You could "just" type "make" and you'd either build the project, or get fast feedback on how much that project cared about developers.