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I certainly like it when I encounter a new project, type make, and it just works.

This is rare these days.. honestly at this point there's so much tooling already around that one can't really ever take that for granted. Almost always, I need to look for some readme or look around and figure out what build system is in use (sometimes it's a common system plus custom stuff so just seeing a name you recognize isn't automatically going to mean the standard invocation will work).

In this case, it hardly matters whether I'm going to run make or ./build or make help or ./build help. A simple script, which I'm advocating for simple projects, can double as a form of README just as a Makefile can.