[tpoacher]

Couldn't you have achieved this even more simply by using make with a go shell?

Btw, from the linked page:

> Makefiles are hard to read and hard to write. Mostly because makefiles are essentially fancy bash scripts with significant white space and additional make-related syntax.

Wait what? What does bash have to do with anything? Mage may well be amazing, but it doesn't sound like this person knows make that well at all. Which makes me think they're simply trying to reinvent the wheel -- in 'go'.

[evancordell]

> Couldn't you have achieved this even more simply by using make with a go shell?

Make is still really about file to file transformations, and `go` already wraps up all of the behavior one would normally use make for. Plus you need make + a shell + go, vs. mage where all that's needed is go.

I can't speak for the author, but I assume they're reacting to how Makefiles tend to be used in go projects and not how make works generally.