capture output of a vim command into a quickfix windows without freezing vim

My colleague at work is using Emacs and it I recently saw a really nice feature that he is using. Whenever he compiles his code the output is dumped into a scratch buffer in what I would call "live" mode. Meaning he can edit files while the code is being compiled. I was wondering if it is possible to do something like this in Vim.

I have mapped my make and setup my quickfix window to work with it. However whenever I execute make, I have to wait till it finishes. Is there a way in Vim to execute make, see make target execution as if it is being executed in a shell, capture the output, and then navigate this output?

Any help is appreciated.

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