make&#x27;s not bad! most of the intended replacements have the surprising quality of actually being worse.<p>two attempts to actually improve the state of the art i&#x27;ve found interesting are tup and (the various implementations of) redo. may be newer well-thought out stuff, too.<p>...but i&#x27;m blissfully unaware &amp; unneeding of the latest make-tool developments these days, coding simple Go and obj-c stuff :)