Main downside, as with many tools much better than make:
>walk is currently not considered stable, and there may be breaking changes before the 1.0 release.
:)
It also needs go, which is pretty non-lightweight dependency on windows, I guess. (And personally, I don't find these dir-hierarchy connection and bash's "case $target in a) ... b) ..." any friendlier at all, though make has some quirks with variable interpolation.)
I'm not to argue to use make for very complex situations, but usual src->intermediate->executable and generate this from that of any size and count is a perfect task for make. Makefiles are unsuitable not for big projects, but for complicated build systems, where it's not enough to just do them steps in correct order. If your build system is complicated, it should be worth it at least. Otherwise use make.
walk is built with Go, which also means it's a single statically linked binary with no dependencies if you download the pre-compiled binary.
If you don't like bash syntax, you can use Python, or Ruby, or Perl, etc. Any executable can serve as a Walkfile.
It's a completely fair point that make is installed on pretty much every machine by default, which is why we won't see it going away anytime soon (nor should it, it's still good).
>walk is currently not considered stable, and there may be breaking changes before the 1.0 release.
:)
It also needs go, which is pretty non-lightweight dependency on windows, I guess. (And personally, I don't find these dir-hierarchy connection and bash's "case $target in a) ... b) ..." any friendlier at all, though make has some quirks with variable interpolation.)
I'm not to argue to use make for very complex situations, but usual src->intermediate->executable and generate this from that of any size and count is a perfect task for make. Makefiles are unsuitable not for big projects, but for complicated build systems, where it's not enough to just do them steps in correct order. If your build system is complicated, it should be worth it at least. Otherwise use make.
Fix: typos/grammar