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1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 13:39:25 EST Verius
   It's amusing to see all those modern build systems with fully fledged programming languages in them. If I look at a build system I prefer something that's hard to get wrong and well suited for the job. For better or for worse Makefiles really aren't that bad. Hell even MSBuild has some decent ideas that would probably work quite well if something less verbose like YAML would be used.
   1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 13:41:49 EST Annah

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      @verius I use scons
   2. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 13:45:44 EST Verius

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      Something like http://mesonbuild.com/ is close to optimum in my opinion. Powerful enough to do 95% what you want easily, extensible enough to add the remaining 5% yourself. Language written for the job of building and not turing complete (you don't want your build system to go into an infinite loop).