[davidcalloway]

I like Makefiles as well, and although many people have commented on the limitations and the fact that the author's usage of make is fairly simplistic, I think it's great to get started with the basics.

Kudos to the author for writing this up and _not_ feeling the need to learn every last bit of make and do everything "properly" before sharing.

I've worked on a team where GitLab CI pipelines replaced Makefiles, and I was asked not to commit a makefile to the project because it's a customized developer workflow. They were allergic to local testing, but I thought it was a great way to just store and share knowledge about how to build, test, clean, etc. Far easier to read the GitLab CI files (which yes of course were also necessary and served a different porpoise).