Yes to your last. Either sh/bash script or a precompiled Golang program. If installing a tool is really such a problem then having a precompiled strongly typed program doing various tasks should be a no-brainer.
I started openly hating `make` because I re-learned its specifics and quirks several times over the course of 10-ish years and then figured that I want to learn stuff with a staying power in my brain. I don't use `make` every work day so eventually any quirks disappear -- that's how our brains work.
So that's why I learned most of `just` and it hasn't betrayed me so far, not once. Though I did write a few Elixir and Golang programs for running various tasks in production environment, too.
