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I’ve used make for many things over the years. I’m competent with it. Make is such a breath of fresh air for the uses that don’t involve actually incrementally
by kstrauser 2y ago
I’ve used make for many things over the years. I’m competent with it. Make is such a breath of fresh air for the uses that don’t involve actually incrementally building software. It’s sooo less verbose. It’s hard to describe the feel of a thing, but imagine learning to program with Java and then finding Python. If you’re building a giant app developed by thousands of people, maybe Java’s complexity starts to show a benefit. If you just want to quickly script something up, Python gets the job done with a tenth the boilerplate.
There’s room for both. Neither replaces the other. But it turns out many of my projects need tools closer to Python/Just than Java/Make.