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by yjftsjthsd-h 343 days ago
To be fair, make is kind of weird in some ways that make it a pain to use if you're not used to it. Even just the stupid tab-only indentation is annoying. That said, it's ubiquitous and that wins over almost anything else in my opinion. Of course, you may take that with a grain of salt since I also write virtually all of my scripts in POSIX sh...
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I agree with you. Make has it's quirks, specially those builtin variables ($@, $<, etc), they are ugly but useful.