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Comment by jstrong | Hacker News Reader

I like make, but I had a lot more luck with just/justfile, which is similar to make conceptually but with less idiosyncratic syntax/execution.

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It doesn't look similar to me at all. It's a tool for running commands, while Make is a build system. Make won't always execute all dependencies.

Looked it up:

https://github.com/casey/just

Very nice after a quick look. Too bad it's not as common as `make`.

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.

Just works with file names with spaces?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9838384/can-gnu-make-han...

Apparently:

    $ cargo install just
    $ ...
    $ vi Justfile
    create:
      touch "Hello world";
    $ just create
    touch "Hello world";
    $ la
    'Hello world'   Justfile

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