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- https://frippery.org/make/ (inspired this post -- HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32300356)

- https://github.com/casey/just (Make with less footguns, written in Rust)

[EDIT] A side-note -- I personally use Make with just all stacks I create with (front/back/infra/etc). I think it's quite undervalued but maybe because I've never dealt with an industrial-strength terrible Makefile setup that would turn me off to it.

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My personal favorite: https://makepp.sourceforge.net

It's make, but works in the way you expect. Plus, with some extensions you can add custom functions to really make your life easier. We use it at $dayjob; at first I didn't like it, but eventually I learned to stop worrying and love it.

Thanks for sharing this! Evidently the HTTPS link is dead -- HTTP only:

http://makepp.sourceforge.net/

Straight to the tutorial for people ready to burn a couple hours figuring out if they should uproot:

http://makepp.sourceforge.net/2.1/makepp_tutorial.html

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