The problem I have with Make is that it has a syntax that most web developers I have worked with would find archaic and unfamiliar. On some projects I've worke

The problem I have with Make is that it has a syntax that most web developers I have worked with would find archaic and unfamiliar. On some projects I've worked on, it's been used as basically a command alias system that only a few people can maintain. None of its caching or dependency chain capabilities were utilized. In these cases, shell scripts would have been a better option, and in some cases were later introduced with success.