In those cases, what author really needs is just[1] not make.

[1] https://just.systems/man/en/

just is just another dependency. make is available everywhere

Make is available in a lot of places, but not everywhere. It has to explicitly be installed in containers and in some distributions.

For ocaml programmers, there is also a lecture about type inference in ocaml: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/chapters/interp/inference....

This course open on youtube is perfect for beginners. Ocaml Programming: correct, efficient + beautiful. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLre5AT9JnKShBOPeuiD9b-I4X...