What's your edit-compile-run cycle in vim?

At the moment I'm using the builtin make to run the compiler (i.e. makeprg) manually and have the quickfix open automatically in case of errors.

It's not too bad but errorformat is a nightmare to configure and it would be nice to just have the compiler output in a window and load the latest errors/warnings when needed (like compilation mode in Emacs).

For fast linters I run make on save which is saves a lot of time, but for anything else I have to wait.

What would you suggest to improve my current setup?