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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by zodiac on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:04PM (#17084111)
I've uses my fair share of build tools and I think makefiles are horrible. Stringly typed, ad-hoc features, and a really bad language from a PL perspective.

Writing good build systems is genuinely hard, and I think make is not a good build system.

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by mcguire on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:58PM (#17084753)
It is, unfortunately, better than most of its successors, at least in terms of generality.
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