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100% agree, and this bothers me a lot. I like `just`, but for some reason I keep coming back to `make`.

> or not GNU flavor not sure

On my macOS laptop

  which make
  # /usr/bin/make

  /usr/bin/make --version
  # GNU Make 3.81

> doesn’t support parallel tasks by default

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.

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Checking the GNU Make manual it might me .NOTPARALLEL flag that wasn’t recognized correctly.

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).

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