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> without the wonky syntax

Idk about you but every shell syntax on a unix-like OS is wonky to me

That's fine, you can always use something like Perl or Python then. But at some point, it certainly seems like all people want to do is run shell commands, and a shell script is still the best way to do that.

I think people want a kind of declarative way for the application to pick up their files and build them, often simultaneously

Make is literally a command runner. That’s all it does.

Yes. Thank you. Make is a victim of its own success in many ways.