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by ajross
2779 days ago
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Exactly. The proof of the basic utility of the system is that it persists in the face of a decades-long firehose of "better" build systems being thrown around. Anyone remember Imake? Scons? (Automake is still around, but everyone hates it.) Oh sure, the fashion these days is something different and those tools are "bad", but by 2024 it'll be something different still. Tool automation with dependency handling and parallel execution is just an inherently hard problem. No one solves it well. But make solves it cleanly. And that counts for something. |
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