Neither is make. You’re using an external tool either way. The one purpose built for the task, and doesn’t have a bunch of archaic footguns [1], will probably give a better experience.

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17965806/how-do-i-handle....

pyproject.toml is for python in general. https://peps.python.org/pep-0621/ setup.py is legacy.