Make Your Build Better with Mage
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Bash is definitely archaic, but personally I find it fairly sane and productive despite that. There's tolerable archaic and there's run-for-the-hills archaic.
Speaking of the latter, it's aversion to the ordeal that is getting anything done in the Windows Batch language (cmd.exe) that would drive me to seek out a nonstandard tool like mage.
I like mage because it would eliminate a lot of make and bash silliness, but I also want to get into Bazel because of all the things it promises.