While I'm a big fan of the Unix Philosophy, I've found gulp to be incredibly satisfying as a build tool. I cd into my project directory and run gulp, then all

While I'm a big fan of the Unix Philosophy, I've found gulp to be incredibly satisfying as a build tool. I cd into my project directory and run gulp, then all my SCSS/CS gets compiled, watched, and re-compiled on change, with LiveReload pushing style changes straight to the browser; and whenever I make a change to my server (Node.js) code, it gets compiled and run against my tests. Then when I'm ready to push to production, I run gulp build and then push it up :) Oh, and my whole gulpfile is <100 lines, a fair amount of which is whitespace/stylistic. It's incredibly readable and flexible: composing complex supertasks is easy. I don't have anything against Make, I've never used it; judging by the code samples in the article, however, and contrasting that with my gulpfile (which, it's worth noting, didn't require me to learn a new language/DSL, just a dead-simple API), I feel much more empowered by gulp than make. Somewhat relevant: I've also found gulp much easier to use and maintain than Grunt.