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The case against Makefiles
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this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2026
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Make is fine unless you want to build on Windows. Then you kind of need something else. It is the very slow process creation infrastructure that kills Make as a tool on Windows.
I agree, you kind of need something else instead of Windows if you want to build software.
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