mage

Several comments mention Task/Taskfile already, which is very similar in that you define tasks in YAML. I think it's worth mentioning Mage/Magefile [1][2] as well, where your tasks are actual Go code. Similar to how Rake is for tasks in Ruby code. It's useful when you have complex tasks. It's like using Pulumi instead of Terraform. [1] https://magefile.org/ [2] https://github.com/magefile/mage

Task is _amazing_ I tried magefiles[0] for a while, but Task just works so much better and isn't Go-specific as heavily. [0] https://github.com/magefile/mage

I enjoy using mage (https://github.com/magefile/mage). I like having a full language at my disposal for configuring things rather than yaml or json or whatever else.

I'd also add https://github.com/go-task/task and https://github.com/magefile/mage (both written in Go) for people who are looking for alternatives to Make.

There's mage. https://github.com/magefile/mage

I'm also curious about this. It seems that many go developers out there are using Makefiles. Makefiles are a good solution for golang projects in some cases, but I've seen a lot of people really abusing Makefiles and trying to use them for more generic task running. In a past life, we used invoke [1] for task running. It was incredible but has the same problem as rake: it introduces another language (Python) and more dependencies. There's a fairly new task runner being developed in go called mage [2], but it didn't seem worth the jump yet to me as it's still pretty immature (I haven't played with it in a few months, though). Did you consider trying that out? [1] https://github.com/pyinvoke/invoke [2] https://github.com/magefile/mage