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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012) by marcosdumay on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:38PM (#23884175)
That's a good observation.

Any deficiency in a complex, widely used and difficult to change development tool will be fixed by adding an extra layer over it.

If the deficiency is something like complexity or lack of reliability that can not be fixed by adding extra layers, read this comment again.

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012) by hoskdoug on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:43PM (#23884212)
Great example is Fastlane abstracting over the impenetrable iOS command line tools.
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