ANanyfoo·Dec 4, 2024
I honestly don't think so, and I think this is here is a prime example for proving that.
For example, a Makefile that does the same job as the build.py script in this project would be significantly smaller, simpler, and easier to read in several metrics that I'd reasonably call "objective" to a certain degree.
In fact, contrast the Makefile in that project: https://github.com/keyvank/30cc/blob/main/Makefile
With the build.py script:
https://github.com/keyvank/30cc/blob/main/build.py
You need to know very little about Makefiles to make immediate sense of what that Makefile is doing, whereas you need to know much more about python to still not immediately see what the build.py script is doing. In fact, you will probably just "guess" that the python script is supposed to do a similar job only from its name before that.
And then the python sc
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ript still does not do incremental builds at all!
Again, if it gets more complex that can change, but this is far away from that. It takes 10 or so minutes to learn enough about Makefiles to be productive with them, from scratch.