A new C idiom

I’ve been writing C since 1981.  I haven’t come up with a new idiom in a decade, until this morning.

Better Makefiles

Today I’ve released a new open source package: better-makefiles.

Makefiles are a black art.  The vast majority of people who use ‘em and write ‘em don’t really understand what’s happening.  I’ve spent a few hundred hours banging my head against them over the years.  I decided yesterday morning to write a better makefile, one that would carry from project to project.  I released it under a BSD license, in case someone else can benefit.

Update 15:30: I wrote a little more about it over here.