[dmitriid]

It's all fun and games while your commands basically look like

    target:
        invoke-some-tool

And then, in a bigger project, you start dealing with dependencies. Exclusions. Code generation. Config-dependent builds. Dev vs stage vs prod. Sub-projects. Invocation of tools depending on other tools. Pipelines. Toolchains.

Then Makefiles quickly devolve into an incomprehensible undebuggable nightmare with arcane syntax rules and behaviours. It doesn't help that there are next to none good resources on Makefiles.