in response to I Like Makefiles on Hacker News
I adore Make. I've written one (or more) for every single task or project I've touched in the last 20 years.
No smarts. It's just a collection of snippets with a few variables. "make run", "make test", "make lint", that kind of thing.
"make recent" = lint then run the most recently modified script.
You could do the same thing with Bash or other shells, but then you get stuck into Developer Land. Things are so much more complicated, without giving extra value. Make is just a DSL saying "files like this, are made into files like that, by running this command or two". That's it.
This is incredibly powerful!
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