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> It’s used for the same reason we write shell scripts Only worse since it also uses $ for its variables leading to "thing:\n\t env FRED=$$HOME/thing some-comm
by mdaniel 2y ago
> It’s used for the same reason we write shell scripts
Only worse since it also uses $ for its variables leading to "thing:\n\t env FRED=$$HOME/thing some-command -p $$AWS_PROFILE $(OTHER_THING) -d $$(date +%s)" level of squinting
So for those using it as a task runner from the 60s, without dependency tracking, now it's just laziness over a shell script that has "dependencies" in an imperative and shellcheck-able way