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The case against Makefiles
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this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2026
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There should be a universal build system that is declarative, handles interdependent build steps, skips building outputs that are still fresh, but that checks freshness in a way that's more robust than tracking modification times, manages parallel execution intelligently, and that manages arbitrary external dependencies. Oh hey, it's Nix!
Can that scale down to individual .cpp files though? My understanding was that it works more at the package level.
Yes, it scales down to single files, and that is a common use case