On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 09:00:05 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 06:46:12 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
After reading this thread I think I'm the only person here who
actually likes makefiles.
Nothing ever feels as complete as a good old hand written
makefile.
Assuming you get it right. In my experience, this is analogous
to saying "nothing ever feels as complete as manually managing
memory". Humans shouldn't write Makefiles.
As in the case of managing memory, I used to do that
(hand-write Makefiles). I don't anymore because the
alternatives are far better.
Atila
And just as manual memory management, human must be able to
manage it manually when required. Not in the general case, not as
the default, but as a possibility.
This is what is wrong with most other build systems.
