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The short article conflates popularity with quality. Windows 3.11 became the most sold os in history despite being utter trash. Make is popular because it was the first build system, not because it is not utter trash.

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Just got out of a python training session with one of my student running w11. Can confirm. So many problems.

Seems like one version out of 2 of windows being trouble stills stand.

What's a good replacement for make that has feature parity?

Well, many of make’s features is what makes it trash.

So your solution is to burn the computer and yell at clouds?

I like WAF. Scons is good too. Then there is Ninja and the whole ecosystem around that. Search the HN archives for many more suggestions.

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