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calvinmorrisontoday at 5:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

what is wrong with make why does every language need to re invent packaging, building, etc. I think these people have no useful software to write so they rewrite the development stack.


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pjmlptoday at 6:27 PM

Because there isn't one package system that works everywhere, and even inside a single OS, each group reinvents the packing as well.

troupotoday at 6:18 PM

Because Make sucks? Because it's really limited and not expressive? Because it's not really a build system (nor is it a package manager or a dependency resolver or...)

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