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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (15 children)

GNU make is confusing as hell and shouldn't be used in today's world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that make is confusing at first but I don't think it should fall out of use. It's a great tool that I use everyday it is far simpler than its competitors once you get used to it. It is basically glorified bash scripting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it can't handle spaces and tabs without causing a crisis, it doesn't belong on this side of 1989.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that was annoying when I first found out about that but I use tabs for indentation anyways so it doesn't make a difference for me.

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