What's wrong with just a real language as a build system? Speaking for Scala, everyone just uses sbt, which is just Scala. Nothing special about it. I'm not say

What's wrong with just a real language as a build system? Speaking for Scala, everyone just uses sbt, which is just Scala. Nothing special about it. I'm not saying you should use Scala to compile your C project, but maybe we could settle on some Lisp dialect or something for compilation, regardless of the language? That would seem ideal to me. Programmers in general have this problem of creating non-turing complete shit to solve problems that require turing completeness. And sometimes it gets worse: first a non turing complete language is created and then when it finally becomes necessary, some loops and shit are grafted on (or a shell script is called in the middle). It's a mess.