I've been using make for a long time but make really really sucks at parallelization and language agnosticism. I mean those things work, but they're by no mean

I've been using make for a long time but make really really sucks at parallelization and language agnosticism. I mean those things work, but they're by no means nice. Parallelization works, but output of different tasks (and even the log that certain commands have been run) are interleaved, making it impossible to view progress. Language agnosticism works by operating on the level of shell commands, but that's really about it. If shell commands need to be customized on a per-system or per-OS level... well it's possible to hack around that with enough external scripts and even esoteric if statements inside the Makefile, but it's not nice. Documentation for make feels like it's from the 80s. Which it is. All these things (with the exception of having to rely on arcane sets of external scripts and if-statements-in-Makefile) are perfectly fixable. But they don't get fixed.