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Re:Tired of Makefiles by silverwind on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:51PM (#40349498)
Make would be so great if it had:

1. a way to track target freshness based on content hash

2. a way to declare variable values as dependencies

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Re:Tired of Makefiles by vaibhavsagar on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:19AM (#40351864)
Have you worked with Nix much?
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Re:Tired of Makefiles by zvr on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @05:56PM (#40372894)
Both of these are easily achievable (if I understood the second one correctly; an example would help).
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