I've written both makefiles and gulpfiles. Yeah, I guess you can get make to do the exact same things as gulp, but gulp already does what a web developer needs

I've written both makefiles and gulpfiles. Yeah, I guess you can get make to do the exact same things as gulp, but gulp already does what a web developer needs, in a language they already know, with a massive plugin ecosystem you don't have to re-implement in shell.