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The refusal of so many people in this industry to learn a pretty simple and incredibly fundamental tool frustrates me no end.

I guess this article could be worse: the number of times I see people reimplement poorly thought out clones of make and present them as the new thing that everyone should use is just absurd.

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You are frustrated about people not learning this tool, any yet when someone publishes an article encouraging people to learn that very tool, you damn it?

For simple use cases, Make is simple (and lovely, in my opinion). For moderate to complex cases, Makes syntax and contortions you have to put yourself into to work around the barrier between what Make expects and how certain things can be done today can cause a bit of pain.

That said, you can prize Make out of my cold dead hands. Still my favourite build tool, and damned powerful once you learn to tame it.

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