With interpretable languages, this feature of Make is IMHO rarely called for. Task running is; Makefile still is a standard way to do project maintenance, both

With interpretable languages, this feature of Make is IMHO rarely called for. Task running is; Makefile still is a standard way to do project maintenance, both locally and CI. jeeves is an attempt to extract that feature of Make, and provide it in a more accessible way. By making .PHONY and .ONESHELL labels history, as a particular example.