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That seems like the most useless pattern to take from make, especially when you name your tool ”just”.

Just what?

> Just what?

"Oh... come on! Just... <waving hands angrily>"

Pretty clear to me :).

The same applies to make without arguments though, make what? Grammar / word meaning aside, unknown / missing commands printing the help file or suggestions is a good pattern.

I think it's less grammatically ambiguous with make. It implicitly means "make <the project>". For most projects that's pretty well defined (and also grammatically correct since 'make' is a verb and 'just' is not).

But even so it would have been a better design for `make` to list top level targets or something.

Just execute.

Hmm. Maybe the dev that set it up made the first recipe run `just --list`

Yeah, I've been adding `just help` as an alias for `just --list` and making it the first recipe for this reason.