I spent two days trying to get grunt, nodejs, ruby working on my PC some month ago, all with the help of seasoned front-end devs. To no avail. So, well, your a

I spent two days trying to get grunt, nodejs, ruby working on my PC some month ago, all with the help of seasoned front-end devs. To no avail. So, well, your argument can be reverted: why try to install a big "let's do it all" machinery which depends on the latest versions of very recent tools, while a simple Makefile, which will run everywhere, would do the task?