gotaskr VS just

Compare gotaskr vs just and see what are their differences.

gotaskr

A generic task runner for Go (by Roemer)

just

🤖 Just a command runner (by casey)
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gotaskr just
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gotaskr

Posts with mentions or reviews of gotaskr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.
  • Generic Task Runner in Go -> gotaskr
    1 project | /r/golang | 20 Aug 2023
    Feel free to head over to GitHub and check the wiki for more details and I would be happy to get feedback or improvement ideas for gotaskr.
  • Build / Makefile templates for Go monorepo?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 10 May 2023
    I created https://github.com/Roemer/gotaskr for that and we are very happy with it for a very complex build system. Give it a try if you want.
  • Is your makefile supposed to be a justfile?
    17 projects | /r/golang | 2 Mar 2023
    May I present my alternative https://github.com/Roemer/gotaskr It is kind of similar to magefile but provides some other features similar to cake build and inbuilt tools useful for devops. And also it is a plain go program so no magic compilation in the background. It replaced basically 100 bash files in our rather complex build/deploy setup. Sometimes a declarative approach is just not enough.
  • Unpopular opinion: CI/CD engines are an awful idea
    6 projects | /r/devops | 4 Feb 2023
    I have used many CI systems on large scale and to be honest, Jenkins is still my favorite. Everything you need is provided and works. You have 100% control over the workflow. With code. All those declarative yaml based ones need sooooo much workarounds to get more complex workflows to run and often you are just stuck with a less optimal solution. Beside the build workflow, we do not write any build logic in the ci engine but use external code runners instead. For .Net I used Cake or Nuke build for example but now my absolute preference for build logic is go. There we use a task runner like gotaskr. This helps having the build logic centralized and usually you can also run different build tasks locally to debug and test them. Also with go, you don‘t need any runtime to run the logic. Just build the task runner once and then you can copy the binary anywhere (eg for parallel build tasks) and just run it. This is optimal to integrate it in Docker base builds so you don‘t need to change the base image at all.
  • Task runner like go-task/task, but in pure Go, no external DSLs
    5 projects | /r/golang | 2 Feb 2023
    May I present my solution: https://github.com/Roemer/gotaskr Heavily inspired by cake build. It has no compile magic anywhere. Just write your go file and run the tasks in it. Or build it and re-use it in a ci for example.
  • Utility library, most gopher way for namespaces/packages
    3 projects | /r/golang | 27 Oct 2022
    The current refactoring is in: https://github.com/Roemer/gotaskr/tree/feature/toolsrefactoring
  • Any open source projects need help ?
    19 projects | /r/golang | 7 Oct 2022
    I'm a go youngling that tried to create a task runner (inspired by cake build for .net) in go as an alternative to magefile. What I would like is to get some feedback about how it is implemented and if there are go-principles that are violated and where the code should be improved. So if you want to do some reviewing, feel free to have a look at https://github.com/Roemer/gotaskr

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 2024-04-27.
  • I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2024
    I don't like makefiles, but I've been enjoying justfiles: https://github.com/casey/just
  • Just a Command Runner
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2024
  • Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2024
    I started using just [0] on my projects and have been very happy so far. It is very similar to make but focused on commands rather than build outputs.

    Define your recipes and then you can compose them as needed.

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

  • Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
    just - https://github.com/casey/just
  • GitHub switched to Docker Compose v2, action needed
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024
    Welp there is absolute chaos in that thread -- guess it's not an April Fools joke.

    I wonder if relying on CI for anything other than provisioning machines is a mistake -- maybe we should have never moved from doing things from local scripts written in $LANGUAGE.

    That said, I'm probably biased since I'm a massive fan of things like `make` and more appropriately for the current age, `just`[0]

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

  • 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
    i've grown to like this for my personal projects. https://github.com/casey/just

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gotaskr and just you can also consider the following projects:

weaver - Programming framework for writing and deploying cloud applications.

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

go-gitlab - GitLab Go SDK

cargo-make - Rust task runner and build tool.

kertish-dfs - Kertish-dfs is a simple distributed storage platform, implements file storage on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides interfaces for file/folder handling. Kertish-dfs aims primarily for completely distributed operation without a single point of failure, scalable to the exabyte level.

cargo-xtask

devtron - Tool integration platform for Kubernetes

Taskfile - Repository for the Taskfile template.

ziti - The parent project for OpenZiti. Here you will find the executables for a fully zero trust, application embedded, programmable network @OpenZiti

CodeLLDB - A native debugger extension for VSCode based on LLDB

mkdkr - mkdkr = Makefile + Docker

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