• csm10495
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    1 year ago

    GNU make is confusing as hell and shouldn’t be used in today’s world.

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      1 year ago

      Counterpoint: it’s indispensable and nothing really fills the same niche.

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      1 year ago

      I agree that make is confusing at first but I don’t think it should fall out of use. It’s a great tool that I use everyday it is far simpler than its competitors once you get used to it. It is basically glorified bash scripting.

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        If it can’t handle spaces and tabs without causing a crisis, it doesn’t belong on this side of 1989.

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          Yeah that was annoying when I first found out about that but I use tabs for indentation anyways so it doesn’t make a difference for me.

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      I agree, yet I also see no good universal alternative. Every language has a nice tool to do things in it’s ecosystem, but the moment you need to coordinate two languages or go beyond simple stuff, make is the only good option.

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        Yep. And honestly most language specific versions of make still have glaring missing features. Which doesn’t matter, until when it really matters.

        I want to embrace a make replacement, but if the pattern holds, they will be prying make out of my cold dead hands to make me presentable for my funeral.

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      1 year ago

      This comment fits the spirit of the question better than anything else in here, I will say that.

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      Meanwhile, Windows has become drastically better for development over the past few years. There are still some drawbacks, but a ton of the anti windows circlejerking in tech spaces is caused by people who haven’t touched windows as a dev environment in 10+ years.