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Not impressed by shell incantations. What would sell such a tool to me is a feature to replace those with new and more intuitive syntax. And a terser one, too. Holding on to how things are done in the shell is not a thing to be proud of. I think a lot of us around here stopped counting the times we got tripped by globbing, forgetting or misplacing one special character in a ${} block, or quoting. Let those monstrosities die already. Please. There's this tool -- https://github.com/ejholmes/walk -- that is pretty good and I liked it but dropped it for the same reasons: it leaves the heavy lifting to you and it depends on your mastery in the black arts. Now obviously I'm not managing huge projects but nowadays https://github.com/casey/just serves me just fine for everything I need.

or if you prefer rust, there's just. https://github.com/casey/just/ better yet, use both and just doit

> I use Make as the standard way to interact with every repo I own. This allows me to type `make build` instead of `$some-language-specific-command-I-forget-in-2-weeks`. I also used to do this until I switched out Make by Just[1]. I find it worth a recommendation. https://github.com/casey/just

Thanks for the kind words! I will definitely be looking to add a comparison feature in the near future. Just [0] is a command runner (like make) with a ton of cool features and improvements over make, and it's written in rust! Commands are specified in a justfile. [0] https://github.com/casey/just

I’ve been really happy with just[1]. Make is great, and just extracts what is one of the best features of make (task runner with dependencies) and makes it a standalone tool. I use it for docker builds, or pretty much as a wrapper around any polyglot repos I create. [1]: https://github.com/casey/just

https://github.com/casey/just#janus they end up here https://github.com/casey/janus/tree/master/fetch

Have you seen Just? https://github.com/casey/just It's make-like but supposedly improves on some of the arcane aspects of make (I can't judge how successful it is at that as I've never used make in anger).

Just lets you save and run commands from files with a terse, readable syntax similar to Make: build: cc *.c -o main # test everything test-all: build ./test --all # run a specific test test TEST: build ./test --test {{TEST}} It is cross-platform, written in Rust, and actively maintained on GitHub: https://github.com/casey/just/ Just has a bunch of nice features: - Can be invoked from any subdirectory - Arguments can be passed from the command line - Static error checking that catches syntax errors and typos - Excellent error messages with source context - The ability to list recipes from the command line - Recipes can be written in any language - Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows - And much more! Just doesn't replace Make, or any other build system, but it does replace reverse-searching