I find Nix to be a really nice alternative to Make; although it's also quite heavyweight and "invasive" (it's not just self-contained binary like `make`), so it

I find Nix to be a really nice alternative to Make; although it's also quite heavyweight and "invasive" (it's not just self-contained binary like `make`), so it's more a case of "I'm already using Nix to install dependencies, why not use it for orchestration too?"