cargo-make VS just

Compare cargo-make vs just and see what are their differences.

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cargo-make

Posts with mentions or reviews of cargo-make. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-15.

just

Posts with mentions or reviews of just. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-21.
  • Which command did you run 1731 days ago?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2024
    > When a command has some cognitive requirements I create a script with some ${1:-default} values and I store them all in $PATH enabled local/bin

    I would consider using just for this:

    https://github.com/casey/just

  • Using Make – writing less Makefile
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
    Your coworker's experience is more principled: Make is a mediocre tool for executing commands. It wasn't ever designed for that. Although it is pretty common to see what you are mentioning in projects because it doesn't require installing a dependency.

    For a repo where an easy to install (single binary) dependency is a non-issue, consider using just. [1] You get `just -l` where you can see all the command available, the ability to use different languages, and overall simpler command writing.

    [1] https://github.com/casey/just

  • Show HN: Just.sh – compiler that turns Justfiles into portable shell scripts
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
    This is fantastic, but I'd say that this solution is somewhat in response to this open issue from 2019:

    https://github.com/casey/just/issues/429

    I really wish just was included as a package in distributions.

  • Sharing Saturday #496
    6 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 8 Dec 2023
    So far, I didn't work on new features at all but on stabilizing the ground for further development: 1. CMake lists and modules were rewritten a lot, now managing builds and their configurations is much lesser pain. 2. Brought in Justfile for regular tasks, and it's great, no less. 3. Linters, formatters, analyzers for almost all the code (except for Janet for now, as because of it being a niche and young technology, it didn't get enough attention yet). 4. ECS stub. Now runtime class doesn't look like a god object. 5. Started writing unit tests which didn't happen with my personal projects before and maybe indicates how serious am I about this one :D 6. Some of previously hardcoded data has been moved to INI files. Now, if I release the game in 10 years, and in 10 more years some eccentric person decides to make a variant of it, it will be slightly simpler.
  • What’s with DevOps engineers using `make` of all things?
    17 projects | /r/devops | 6 Dec 2023
    https://github.com/casey/just - more of a command runner but the Justfile syntax is quite Makefile-like.
    17 projects | /r/devops | 6 Dec 2023
    If you dislike make checkout just https://github.com/casey/just
    17 projects | /r/devops | 6 Dec 2023
    i've grown to like this for my personal projects. https://github.com/casey/just
    17 projects | /r/devops | 6 Dec 2023
    Make is not exactly made for task definition and running, but it can be used like so as long as you know its quirks and counter intuitive gotchas, of which there are many seeing as Make is meant for building sources first and foremost. I use it a lot. I've been meaning to convert at least my personal stuff to https://github.com/casey/just or another task runner for some time though, Make can really be annoying sometimes.
  • Show HN: Jeeves – A Pythonic Alternative to GNU Make
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2023
    Reminds me of `just`. Which I love.

    https://github.com/casey/just

  • Dev Containers: Open, Develop, Repeat...
    9 projects | dev.to | 30 Oct 2023
    In my example above, I installed the developer tool "Just" as a Dev Container feature. I could also install it by adding the install script to my Dockerfile. However, I would have to build my own Dockerfile and would have to maintain this piece of code myself. This Dev Container Feature works on different architectures and base images, which makes them convenient to use.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cargo-make and just you can also consider the following projects:

Task - A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go

cargo-xtask

Taskfile - Repository for the Taskfile template.

CodeLLDB - A native debugger extension for VSCode based on LLDB

cargo-release - Cargo subcommand `release`: everything about releasing a rust crate.

helix - A post-modern modal text editor.

rst - The open source design documentation tool for everybody [Moved to: https://github.com/vitiral/artifact]

cargo-benchcmp - A small utility to compare Rust micro-benchmarks.

Module Linker - browse modules by clicking directly on "import" statements on GitHub

Clippy - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/

cargo-ebuild - cargo extension that can generate ebuilds using the in-tree eclasses