* It can't run tasks in parallel
* It doesn't handle file dependencies. i.e: it's just a task runner, not a build tool.
* It's another tool you have to install, make comes pre-installed in most UNIX-like operating systems.
MacOS make is outdated (or not GNU flavor not sure) and, for example, doesn’t support parallel tasks by default or some more advanced recipes.
Asking people to use gmake on a standard Makefile is much more difficult than just asking to install Justfile runner.
> or not GNU flavor not sure
On my macOS laptop
which make
# /usr/bin/make
/usr/bin/make --version
# GNU Make 3.81
I haven't verified this. I've checked `make --help` using the built-in make on my Mac (GNU Make 3.81), it mentions the `--jobs` option to run multiple jobs in parallel.
Cannot provide precise issues with (as it was more then a year) but I encountered 3-4 problems after having complete Makefile which was kind of downer because I had to rewrite it to support “vanilla” make.
In the end I dropped parallel went with Justfile and it took fraction of time (but truth be told I had dynamic PHONY targets which aren’t super easy to setup in Make).