On: Why Use Make

[watmough]

Can't mod this up enough.

Microsoft's crazy-ass xml build mechanism is a giant pain in the ass, even compared to their old nmake (I think) tool.

The new system is a great example of a system where someone presumably said "Make is garbage, a big red flag, let's build something better."

[quotemstr → watmough]

Yep: the parts of the Windows tree still built with nmake are much more pleasant to hack on than the parts that use msbuild.