> If make supplied it's own shell language, a simplified one, then everything would be fantastic. We did exactly that in build2, a modern make re-thought. And

> If make supplied it's own shell language, a simplified one, then everything would be fantastic. We did exactly that in build2, a modern make re-thought. And we provide a bunch of standard utilities like sed, find, etc., that work the same everywhere, including Windows. Here is an example of a non-trivial recipe: https://github.com/build2/libbuild2-autoconf/blob/17f637c1cabba11747fff5d341c3db114f76b26f/libbuild2-autoconf/libbuild2/autoconf/buildfile#L25 https://github.com/build2/libbuild2-autoconf/blob/17f637c1ca...