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		zeveb on June 20, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Make for hipsters Make is old and crufty, but it's still the best at what it does. What I'd really love right now is a program which can look at a Go source tree and write make rules such that I don't have to run go build or go install unless dependencies have actually changed. It's really annoying to be pushing new images when nothing has actually changed.

koloron on June 20, 2016 [–]

> but it's still the best at what it does.

If "what it does" means "build complex software projects" I think your claim is rather debatable.

GHC is currently switching away from make after having already overhauled its make-based build system two times:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

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