I didn't say these partial treatments are not worth reading/watching. On the contrary - they're pretty nice. You just have the mentally prepare yourself of "expanding your consciousness" gradually, that's all.

Those things you mention - cross-platform differences, unit tests, debug builds etc. - require a bit of getting used to, but once you do, the syntax is not bad and I don't feel I'm suffering. Certainly not feeling the brittleness.

And - no, an old-fashioned Makefile can't even _begin_ to cut it. Not by a long-shot. (And that's not even mentioning the fact that it's mostly irrelevant on Windows.)