> When you are learning that new JS framework, do you not keep going through their docs and googling?
Yes -- and then I proceed to use the thing every day. I wouldn't be adjusting a Makefile very often so I would keep forgetting whatever I "learned" every time I changed it.
The point is that the JS syntax of the gruntfile is a syntax I'm using every day. Whereas make's syntax rules are bizarre and used nowhere else (IIRC it makes a distinction between tabs and spaces?)
Yes -- and then I proceed to use the thing every day. I wouldn't be adjusting a Makefile very often so I would keep forgetting whatever I "learned" every time I changed it.