I don't see that the sarcasm is warranted. GNU make, really, is the relevant standard. It's what virtually everyone doing serious work (as opposed to e.g. emitting "makefiles" from some other tool) with make uses. GNU Make is simply more featureful and more performant than the other choices.
One of the features it doesn't have, though, is a first class language for doing non-trivial extensions. Some systems (the kernel Makefiles and Android's build system are really good examples) have stretched make's built-in environmnent past the limit already and might have benefitted from something like this.
One of the features it doesn't have, though, is a first class language for doing non-trivial extensions. Some systems (the kernel Makefiles and Android's build system are really good examples) have stretched make's built-in environmnent past the limit already and might have benefitted from something like this.