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+<a href="../overview">many features</a>? This chapter will
+attempt to answer that.</p></div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_erlang_mk_is_fast">Erlang.mk is fast</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk is as fast as it gets.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk will group the compilation of files so as to avoid
+running the BEAM more than necessary. This saves many seconds
+compared to traditional Makefiles, even on small projects.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk will not try to be too smart. It provides a simple
+solution that works for most people, and gives additional
+options for projects that run into edge cases, often in the
+form of extra variables or rules to be defined.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_erlang_mk_gives_you_the_full_power_of_unix">Erlang.mk gives you the full power of Unix</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk is a Makefile.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>You could use Erlang.mk directly without configuring anything
+and it would just work. But you can also extend it greatly
+either through configuration or hooks, and you can of course
+add your own rules to the Makefile.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>In all cases: for configuration, hooks or custom rules, you
+have all the power of Unix at your disposal, and can call
+any utility <em>or even any language interpreter</em> you want,
+every time you need to. Erlang.mk also allows you to write
+scripts in this small language called Erlang directly inside
+your Makefile if you ever need to…</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_erlang_mk_is_a_text_file">Erlang.mk is a text file</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk is a Makefile.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Which means Erlang.mk is a simple text file. You can edit a
+text file. Nothing stops you. If you run into any bug, or
+behavior that does not suit you, you can just open the
+<em>erlang.mk</em> file in your favorite editor, fix and/or comment
+a few lines, save, and try again. It’s as simple as it gets.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Currently using a binary build tool? Good luck with that.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_erlang_mk_can_manage_erlang_itself">Erlang.mk can manage Erlang itself</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk isn’t written in Erlang.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>That’s not a good thing, you say? Well, here’s one thing
+that Erlang.mk and Makefiles can do for you that Erlang
+build tool can’t easily: choose what version of Erlang is
+to be used for compiling the project.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This really is a one-liner in Erlang.mk (a few more lines
+if you also let it download and build Erlang directly)
+and allows for even greater things, like testing your
+project across all supported Erlang versions in one small
+command: <code>make -k ci</code>.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_erlang_mk_can_do_more_than_erlang">Erlang.mk can do more than Erlang</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk doesn’t care what your dependencies are written in.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk will happily compile any dependency, as long as
+they come with a Makefile. The dependency can be written
+in C, C++ or even Javascript… Who cares, really? If you
+need Erlang.mk to fetch it, then Erlang.mk will fetch it
+and compile it as needed.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_erlang_mk_integrates_nicely_in_make_and_automake_projects">Erlang.mk integrates nicely in Make and Automake projects</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>If you are planning to put your project in the middle of
+a Make or Automake-based build environment, then the most
+logical thing to do is to use a Makefile.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk will happily sit in such an environment and behave
+as you expect it to.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
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