Sort of kind of, and in that analogy Gulp/Grunt would be equivalent to `make`. But unlike a typical linker, Webpack can invoke 'compilers' itself for the code i

Sort of kind of, and in that analogy Gulp/Grunt would be equivalent to `make`. But unlike a typical linker, Webpack can invoke 'compilers' itself for the code it's bundling/linking - which is where the confusion around this topic comes from.