Language specific build tools will usually behave predictably across all development platforms supported by the language. Once you start building on a third party, developer experience will be bounded by the quality of platform support of that third party. You don't want to send everybody off on a hunt for the right version of Python unless you are Python.

(Just picking Python as an example because of the recent xkcd. The same is true for everything else, e.g. a Windows computer will rarely contain exactly one make.exe, it's usually either none or a whole bunch of them)