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The syntax may be eyebleedingly awful but damn if it doesn't actually keep working. Justfiles aren't even parallisable, but make had that baked in decades ago.

And no matter how much vi(m) might be a plugin-bloated mess that never really gelled for me, it also never lagged out or randomly failed to do things like autocomplete or formatter running to nearly the extent VS Code does daily. And it didn't use half my CPU just sitting there.

Autotools, now, that's some real self-flagrllation.




Autotools are complex, yes, but I've seen simple setups.

Here's a good start to compile Inform. And, yes, inform could be surely compiled with a literal

      'cc -o inform src/*.c'
but my point stands.

https://jxself.org/git/?p=inform.git;a=summary




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