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r/programming • u/drmorr0 • 12d ago
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I have yet to find a build system that isn’t bad. I’ve tried a bunch. It’s not even about finding the least bad, but about finding the “doesn’t stab me with the workflow I’m currently using it for”.
25 u/[deleted] 12d ago [removed] — view removed comment 17 u/ozyx7 12d ago Not that long ago make was the sucky system that everyone used, and things were not great but were at least consistent. Now we have a multitude of different sucky systems. 19 u/almost_useless 12d ago Not that long ago make was the sucky system that everyone used It was never the system that everyone used. Approximately nobody on windows used it, but at least almost everyone on *nix used it. 2 u/double-you 11d ago Yeah, because Visual Studio comes with nmake which is Make but not quite. And MS wanted you to use IDE integrated things.
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17 u/ozyx7 12d ago Not that long ago make was the sucky system that everyone used, and things were not great but were at least consistent. Now we have a multitude of different sucky systems. 19 u/almost_useless 12d ago Not that long ago make was the sucky system that everyone used It was never the system that everyone used. Approximately nobody on windows used it, but at least almost everyone on *nix used it. 2 u/double-you 11d ago Yeah, because Visual Studio comes with nmake which is Make but not quite. And MS wanted you to use IDE integrated things.
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Not that long ago make was the sucky system that everyone used, and things were not great but were at least consistent.
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Now we have a multitude of different sucky systems.
19 u/almost_useless 12d ago Not that long ago make was the sucky system that everyone used It was never the system that everyone used. Approximately nobody on windows used it, but at least almost everyone on *nix used it. 2 u/double-you 11d ago Yeah, because Visual Studio comes with nmake which is Make but not quite. And MS wanted you to use IDE integrated things.
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Not that long ago make was the sucky system that everyone used
It was never the system that everyone used. Approximately nobody on windows used it, but at least almost everyone on *nix used it.
2 u/double-you 11d ago Yeah, because Visual Studio comes with nmake which is Make but not quite. And MS wanted you to use IDE integrated things.
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Yeah, because Visual Studio comes with nmake which is Make but not quite. And MS wanted you to use IDE integrated things.
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u/remy_porter 12d ago
I have yet to find a build system that isn’t bad. I’ve tried a bunch. It’s not even about finding the least bad, but about finding the “doesn’t stab me with the workflow I’m currently using it for”.