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Re:Show HN: Minimal Fibers by enriquto on Saturday May 19, 2018 @07:15AM (#17107388)
> Maybe build systems are the dead-centre of a "sour spot" (opposite of sweet spot) in computer science, with no truly nice solutions out there?

I think it's the opposite. It is a very, very sweet spot for which many essentially perfect solutions exist. Then, it attracts all kinds of extreme bikeshedding and produces the monsters we see here and there.

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Re:Show HN: Minimal Fibers by exikyut on Saturday May 19, 2018 @08:58AM (#17107712)
Ooh, okay.

What do you think are the best/"essentially perfect" solution(s)?

(Said as someone who just figured out his first Makefile a couple days ago :P)

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Re:Show HN: Minimal Fibers by enriquto on Saturday May 19, 2018 @02:37PM (#17109091)
make is essentially perfect for compiling small and moderately sized projects
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