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> Grunt in particular doesn't bring anything to the table that bash scripts don't

One thing that comes to mind is cross-platform builds, which in some scenarios is very useful.

Also, how do I call a JS function in a Bash script? There are lots of JS libraries that existed before Grunt that are useful to incorporate into a build system. If I was relying on Bash scripts, I'd have to write all sorts of wrappers in JS anyway.

#!/usr/bin/env node

What a heavy wrapper. ;-)

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