To the extent that posts like these evolve into discussing the merits of Make as a task runner, I would like to offer my tool for review: * https://github.com/

To the extent that posts like these evolve into discussing the merits of Make as a task runner, I would like to offer my tool for review: * https://github.com/TekWizely/run https://github.com/TekWizely/run I built it to feel like make, but be better at managing tasks and wrappers. If you are evaluating task runners and appreciate the simplicity of Make's syntax, I hope you'll give Run a try.