How does this compare to Plex?
Plex focuses on having a server component that transcodes and their “Plex Pass” service for better connectivity, enabling lightweight native players for all of your devices. This way you can watch any of your content on anything even over cellular, even if it’s a weird format that the device wouldn’t easily support.
This is a departure from the traditional XBMC-on-device that also acts as the client trying to play any format of content.
Kodi is amazing and I’d use it if it weren’t for the fact that I don’t want a new interface, I simply want my “owned” content to show up as Yet Another App on my stream boxes and phones. Plex fits that bill.
I really don’t like Make for the common use-cases it is being used for in the modern day, such as the Golang ecosystem or in many cases: creating docker files.
Make, at its core, is a tool that is meant to help you structure your dependencies for incrementally building things, but people use it as a glorified task runner simply due to the fact that it’s such a common build tool that it is nearly always installed if you have a development toolchain on your machine.
Go and docker already have incremental compilation built in, and docker doesn’t give definable artifacts so you can’t make other things depend on them either
It is a powerful tool, but the syntax is hideous and has more jagged edges than bash does, and we aren’t even using it in a way that justifies this. Makes me so frustrated for some reason.
Like everyone deciding to use a supercar to do farmwork.