cmake_format VS Rake

There's a cmake-format project with some linting features, but it's hard to add the checks to clean up the biggest CMake antipatterns because relevant solutions tend to be more opinionated in one direction or another.

Have you considered integrating cmake-format? It requires an extra dependency of course, but you can make it optional.

Some competitors - Rake (ruby) - Bake - Earthly - SCons - doit

where every argument except the name can either be missing, single (value) or multiple (array). Sure, it has the "advantage" that it's syntactically valid Ruby code, but it then requires some 70 lines of awful code to actually parse that data into a usable construct ([1] up to L145).

[1] https://github.com/ruby/rake/blob/7b50e9dc37abc57fd365c16cb1...

Rake[0] is still the best ‘make-like’ build tool I’ve used for general purpose stuff. The syntax is nice and it’s just Ruby which is a delight. I briefly used Mage (similar, but Go) and it was fine too.

[0]: https://github.com/ruby/rake

Yup! Two well-established alternatives are "rake", in the Ruby community, and "just" in the Rust community.

Rake is fully programmable in Ruby. Just is a bit less flexible, but it doesn't require learning Ruby, and it's quite pleasant to use.

https://ruby.github.io/rake/

Rake is a great way to homogenize and declare common behaviors of your script (called "tasks"); a guide.

In Ruby there's a gem named Rake. This gem provides a DSL to create tasks to be run from the command line. A small example looks like this:

I think you're referring to Rake. https://ruby.github.io/rake/

We use [Rake](https://github.com/ruby/rake) instead - it's awesome.

If you've been working with Ruby on Rails for a while, you've come across Rake. Written by the late Jim Weirich, Rake is to Ruby what Make is to C. It's very easy to create custom Rake tasks to simplify your development workflows. Rails even provides a generator (rails g task) to create them for you.