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		VS1999 on April 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles Practically any language will do for running a set of tasks to compile a program. Unless you already love this "wheel" intimately, just learn a real language and use that.

lelanthran on April 28, 2024 [–]

> Practically any language will do for running a set of tasks to compile a program.

Like? None of the mainstream languages have any sort of builtin for dependency resolution.

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