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I agree with you that "Grunt is ant". But when I look at that code example it seems like "Gulp is ant", too. It's just less verbose. I think that Lineman is the Maven equivalent in the JS world.

+1. I have spent more time reading about grunt than I have spent investigating + converting to + using gulp in production.

I'd say Grunt is Maven because IDEs have no way to figure out beforehand what the build process will do.

That's the opposite of Maven. IDEs know exactly what a maven project will do (unless you're using plugins the IDE doesn't know about), because a maven build only does a very limited set of things (it mostly just compiles the source in src/main/java into target/). Which is what makes it great.