Makefile experts, unite!

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 13:18 +0200, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> […]
> 
> But I rather see the make build system completely replaced with 
> something else.

Make was a revelation and revolution in 1977.

Make is the assembly language of build.

There are much better abstractions of build these days.

CMake/Make
CMake/Ninja
Meson/Ninja
SCons

to name some obvious high profile examples. And then there are:

Gradle
Bazel
Cargo
Go
Dub

to name some alternate models of build.

That Chapel and D chose Make as their build system is rather annoying,
so backward looking, for supposedly forward looking systems. Oh well.

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