[jahitr]

GNU make is one of the most complete task manager I have seem.

But there are a few major problems with it:

Newies often complain a lot about the esoteric syntax.

It's written in C.

It doesn't gets updated as fast as it should.

These points make it not very suitable for our current time.

I belive we all just need to pick something like gulp and port the "good parts" into it.

There is no point in having 20 tools that do the same!

[hyc_symas]

"written in C" is an asset, not a liability. It is still the one language that is portable across the widest spectrum of platforms, as well as the most efficient high level language for execution.