This post rather misses that while Make is simple, making Make do all the things we're used to (e.g. Java dependency management) not as simple. I'd like to thi

This post rather misses that while Make is simple, making Make do all the things we're used to (e.g. Java dependency management) not as simple. I'd like to think people have decided that it's easier to replicate the task part of Makefiles onto their environment as the simpler alternative to making dependency management and various other language-specific tasks available to make.