Please help me understand why this thing exists. Like, no snark, I like using the proper tool for a job -- when would I look at the project and think "this is something that is better done with 'just' tool". Instead of readme.txt and a folder with scripts
It’s gotten some syntactic sugar recently that’s made it pretty nice. Specifically, I’m thinking of its OS-specific sections: you can do something like
[macos]
# do a thing
And without any other checks, that section will only ever run on Mac. Yes, of course you can replicate this in Make, but it isn’t nearly that easy.
I can count on one hand the number of times a simple script or make worked out of the box. Sure, part of the reason is dependencies, but then I might as well use a build tool that is actually doing what a build tool should. Makefiles/bash scripts are hacks, and I don’t get this strange Stockholm syndrome UNIX-people have for them.
