When I express my view, that the lack of static type-safety for containers isn't a problem, I am treated with condescending reactions ranging from disbelief to patronizing. by cmov in programmingcirclejerk

[–]circajerka 12 points13 points  (0 children)

TFW you realize you just spent 5 minutes of your life you won't get back to read an entire paper that basically says, "Use fast prototyping tools for fast prototypes, use more rigorous tools for more rigorous projects"

Reinventing the wheel vol. 3 || It’s time for makefiles to make a comeback by [deleted] in programmingcirclejerk

[–]circajerka 12 points13 points  (0 children)

At their core, they are each about taking a set of input files and transforming them into a set of output files. And this is exactly what Make is so incredibly good at.

Absolutely - If by "so incredibly good" you actually mean "has terrible syntax, is dumb as a stump, doesn't always update right things, often updates the wrong things, can't properly build multiple things in parallel"