> Unfortunately, however, make wasn't made to compose well; you'll rarely see people (including me) publishing and re-using rules I'm not saying Gulp, Grunt o

> Unfortunately, however, make wasn't made to compose well; you'll rarely see people (including me) publishing and re-using rules I'm not saying Gulp, Grunt or Webpack will suit your needs but I find Makefiles quickly become very unreadable and hard to debug. Its syntax for loops, conditions and arithmetic is awkward and hard to remember and the behaviour of variables is confusing. At least with the others the syntax is decent and there's tons of plugins for common tasks. Why would Gulp for example not suit your use case?