But I don't like tabs and don't understand dependencies so I'm going to invent an ad-hoc DSL full of footguns where everything's driven by magical, opaque 'plug

But I don't like tabs and don't understand dependencies so I'm going to invent an ad-hoc DSL full of footguns where everything's driven by magical, opaque 'plugins', call it "modern", and tell everyone to use that, instead. /s (I'm all for replacing Make with a tool that's more cross-platform, less dependent on the shell, and has nicer syntax for writing functions, etc, but somehow every 'Make replacement' that crashes through here seems to completely completely miss the point of Make, and instead just provides, at best, a badly-defined scripting language with language-specific package management. There's a reason Make keeps going.)