Make is fine for simple cases, but I'm working on a project that is based on buildroot right now, and it is kind of a nightmare: make just does not provide any good way at this scale to keep track of what's going on and inspect / understand what goes wrong. Especially in the context of a highly parallel build with some dependencies are gonna get missing.
In general also all the implicit it has makes it hard to predict what can happen. Again when you scale to support a project that would be 1) large and 2) wouldn't have a regular structure.
On another smaller scale: doing an incremental build of LLVM is a lot faster with Ninja compared to Make (crake-generated).
Make is great: just don't use it where it is not the best fit.
In general also all the implicit it has makes it hard to predict what can happen. Again when you scale to support a project that would be 1) large and 2) wouldn't have a regular structure.
On another smaller scale: doing an incremental build of LLVM is a lot faster with Ninja compared to Make (crake-generated).
Make is great: just don't use it where it is not the best fit.