In all these discussions about make, everyone argues about using it for everything. Personally, I don't know another tool that makes it straight forward to glue

In all these discussions about make, everyone argues about using it for everything. Personally, I don't know another tool that makes it straight forward to glue together all kinds of different build tools (for example webpack for frontend and maven/sbt for the backend). Even if you don't directly use make, it makes for great, verifiable documentation.