I said much the same thing when Google released Sawzall 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866364

I said much the same thing when Google released Sawzall 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866364 That said, I have written 2-5 Makefiles from scratch (move companies, need to create a new product, don't have access to old Makefiles). The rest are definitely copy/paste/modify.