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I want a build system that:

- is as powerful and flexible as #SCons
- as readable and concise as #SnakeMake
- has a fricking progress bar
- is :datalad: #datalad / :gitannex: #gitannex agnostic (knows that broken symlinks or pointer files can be fetched from elsewhere
- remembers how long […]

It is beyond me why build systems like #make #scons #snakemake et al. all don't have a flag like `--pattern '*2022-*'` that will make only those files it knows how to make matching a given pattern.