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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by sneak on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:00PM (#16484450)
because then people new to your project can see a makefile and know that “make” and “make test” and “make install” probably work without having to learn your homebrew, one-off build system.
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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by rectang on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:03PM (#16484490)
This argument for Make is exclusively based on network effects. Fine. we accept that we're stuck with it. It still sucks.
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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by sneak on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:30PM (#16494094)
I disagree. It’s an argument for convention. This is the same reason we have package.json or Dockerfile or Pipfile or Rakefile - it tells us the standard interface for “install this”. It’s not specific to make.

Docker is new and didn’t have any network effect until recently.

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