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I wouldn't say make is perfect, but it's different from this kind of tool. Make is more geared towards file creation that depends on complex pipelines. It's not a task runner. In fact, you have to force it to be a task runner with .PHONY if you really need it to.

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With interpretable languages, this feature of Make is IMHO rarely called for. Task running is; Makefile still is a standard way to do project maintenance, both locally and CI. jeeves is an attempt to extract that feature of Make, and provide it in a more accessible way.

By making .PHONY and .ONESHELL labels history, as a particular example.

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