I thought Nix used as Guix Guile under the hoos, but looked up now, and they seem to use custom language, in which case is it even worse. I should have looked up that before the hand, my bad there, I appologize.

Op complained about that make requires a bunch of extra tools to get running, and suggests another bunch of extra tools, as well as of make DSL which is more or less shell on steroids, but suggests a mix of two different languages instead, and does not even seem to be aware he can use Guile Scheme to extend Make.