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  • makext

    QOL Extensions for GNU Make

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  • polling_state_machine_cpp

    Example of a polling state machine in C++

  • Nice, I will definitely use these techniques.

    Here are a few settings that make GNU make a bit faster, and enable multi-line, strict-mode bash scripts as recipes (make recipes are normally sequences of single-line sh invocations)--and enable quietude & tracing: https://github.com/barries/polling_state_machine_cpp/blob/ma...

  • hledger

    Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.

  • For historical interest (though to compare you really need to work with them over a period of time), here's a thousand line [Makefile](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/2d35b1051/Makef...) that was converted to a [Justfile](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/43c93eb37/Justf...). And here's the kind of template I used for multicommand shell scripts when trying those ([ft](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/43c93eb37/bin/f...), [tt](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/43c93eb37/bin/t...)).

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