[brandonmenc]

I've written both makefiles and gulpfiles.

Yeah, I guess you can get make to do the exact same things as gulp, but gulp already does what a web developer needs, in a language they already know, with a massive plugin ecosystem you don't have to re-implement in shell.

[andrewchambers]

A plug in system is nice. I didn't say it was totally bad, I just think its interesting.