I Like Makefiles

Re:I Like Makefiles by AdamJacobMuller on Saturday September 21, 2024 @12:45AM (#41607531)

Agree with the sentiment here but I've been rewriting lots of things to use Justfiles instead

https://github.com/casey/just

Avoids lots of weird makefileisims

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Re:I Like Makefiles by OutOfHere on Saturday September 21, 2024 @12:49AM (#41607546)

It's true, although GPT has given Makefiles a second life by helping write them, delaying their demise.

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Re:I Like Makefiles by aterp on Saturday September 21, 2024 @06:40PM (#41613190)

It's an interesting phenomenon. ChatGPT and other LLMs have really opened up previously "archaic" tooling like Make and Bash. I've "written" more Bash in the last year than my entire career previously, because LLMs are such good copilots for that.

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Re:I Like Makefiles by AdamJacobMuller on Monday September 23, 2024 @04:33PM (#41630197)

Oh god bash is archaic now?

I was not prepared to feel this old today.

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Re:I Like Makefiles by AdamJacobMuller on Monday September 23, 2024 @04:33PM (#41630208)

Agreed but my favorite thing is to take a Makefile and throw it into ChatGPT and have it give me a justfile and seeing it remove all the weird makefile patterns.

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Re:I Like Makefiles by metaltyphoon on Saturday September 21, 2024 @12:52AM (#41607565)

Same. Bonus that the same file works on Windows too

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