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Make is incredibly cursed. My favorite example is it having a built-in rule (oversimplified, some extra Makefile code that is pretended to exist in every Makefi

Make is incredibly cursed. My favorite example is it having a built-in rule (oversimplified, some extra Makefile code that is pretended to exist in every Makefile) that will extract files from a version control system. https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Catalogue-of-Rules.html https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Catalogue... What you're saying is essentially ”Just Write Bash Scripts”, but with an extra layer of insanity on top. I hate it when I encounter a project like this.

nicoburns 8mo ago
https://github.com/casey/just https://github.com/casey/just is an uncursed make (for task running purposes - it's not a general build system)
- arielcostas 8mo ago
  How does `just` compare to Task (https://taskfile.dev/ https://taskfile.dev/)?
  - timw4mail 8mo ago
    Just uses make-like syntax, not yaml, which I view as a huge advantage.
mickeyp 8mo ago
No I'm saying use Makefiles, which work just fine. Mark your targets with PHONY and move on.
- krautsauer 8mo ago
  You still get bash scripts in the targets, with $ escape hell and weirdness around multiline scripts, ordering & parallelism control headaches, and no support for background services. The only sane use for Makefiles is running a few simple commands in independent targets, but do you really need make then? (The argument that "everyone has it installed" is moot to me. I don't.)