[aequitas]

I agree if you end up using Make like its used in C projects: compiling intermediate objects, linking them, etc. In that case the Go compiler should suffice.

I almost exclusively use Make for projects in any language nowadays as workflow automation, this includes Go, Python, Terraform, Docker builds.

In this way Make is a indispensable tool for me. As for me it's portable where it matters (macOS, Linux, WSL), it's ubiquitous, it has a stable API and it's behaviour is well know to me. Sometimes I have to work around some shortcomings of Make, eg: things that don't produce a file as result, where you `touch` a fake artifact file. But this is a minor annoyance for me compared to what Make brings in term of how simple and declarative I can automate my workflows.