[sanderjd]

This was the nicest thing about blaze at google. I'm a big believer that having a single standard tool for things is a huge value add, regardless of what the tool is. I didn't really like blaze particularly, and I don't really like make particularly, but it's amazing to just have a single standard that everybody uses, no matter what it is.

[pornel]

Rust's Cargo has the same appeal. There are 90,000 libraries that support cargo build/doc/run/test without fuss.

[sneak]

No, I believe GP is advocating against language-specific tools being the standard. In the ideal world you would have a Makefile that calls cargo so "make" still works like it does identically in the js or python or golang repos.

[ahungry]

yup, thats the appeal - in a multi language environment a common call, not having to futz with cargo run, npm run start, python3 -m something, etc