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by ericmoritz 4857 days ago
I can't tell you how many projects I've shelved for months and when I returned thought, "Damn it. How do I build this again? Oh look a Makefile. Thank you Past Eric."

Even for projects that use more sophisticated build tools like rebar, leiningen or npm I write a Makefile so I don't have to remember those tools. Make provides a universal interface to those tools.