[senko]

> Just go play with an autotools-based C project sometime to remind/education yourself.

Funny you should mention autotools. It reminds me a lot of webpack, especially in the way nobody[0] really understands how it works, but you search around for examples and copy/paste what works for you.

[0] a hyperbole; i'm sure someone does, just as I'm sure some people dreamt of M4 macros back in the day

[cmrdporcupine]

Oh it's so awful; but I recently was exposed to a project where some of the leads were trying to defend it as a reasonable tech choice. It really isn't. Not in this era. Most people never even used it correctly in the first place.