Concerning expansion, I guess the article is not claiming that it is good, it doesn't even mention this "feature". I guess it's just saying: "make can do everything your gulp can, it's better, faster and more readable", that's without using any variable expansion feature.
As soon as more JavaScript developers start writing very very simple Makefiles, tooling will improve and maybe someone will come up with a better make.
The other option is to let people keep using webpack and gulp until they come up with another JS-based build-system, webpack 5 or 6, and grulpt or whatever comes after grunt/gulp.
As soon as more JavaScript developers start writing very very simple Makefiles, tooling will improve and maybe someone will come up with a better make.
The other option is to let people keep using webpack and gulp until they come up with another JS-based build-system, webpack 5 or 6, and grulpt or whatever comes after grunt/gulp.