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Make is designed to track build dependencies, not to execute programs, so I think the problem is the choice of name.

"just" is a utility designed to execute programs: https://github.com/casey/just#just

Is there any design decision of Make that makes it not suitable for executing programs?

Just knowing the commands and their arguments (environment vars) with make is difficult. Env vars can easily have typos. With just you can actually list out all the commands.

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