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I'm glad to see I'm not a minority of one here. Looking at autoconf and friends I'm reminded of the dreck that used to fill OpenSSL's code simply because they were trying to account for every eventuality. Autotools feels like the same thing. You end up with a ton of hard to read code (autogenerated bash, not exactly poetry) and that feels very inimical to safety.


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