mage vs taskflow

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mage		taskflow
	Project
9	Mentions	-
3,874	Stars	208
0.7%	Growth	-
5.0	Activity	8.5
3 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

mage

Posts with mentions or reviews of mage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-07.

climate "CLI Mate": a CLI library that autogenerates CLIs from structs / functions with support for nested subcommands, global / local flags, help generation from godocs, typo suggestions, shell completion and more
7 projects | /r/golang | 7 Jul 2023

mage being a build tool and climate being a CLI library, a direct comparison probably doesn't make much sense but their parsing (https://github.com/magefile/mage/blob/master/parse/parse.go) seems very similar to what I'm doing for metadata (param names / godocs / comments etc.).
Is your makefile supposed to be a justfile?
17 projects | /r/golang | 2 Mar 2023

mage
Anyone else doing compiler work in Golang?
10 projects | /r/golang | 28 Feb 2023

https://github.com/magefile/mage but I haven't tried it as am not a fun of make like tools.
Do we have a package.json/scripts section alternative in Golang?
3 projects | /r/golang | 21 Jun 2022

I prefer https://github.com/magefile/mage
[sema v1.0.0] First Major Version Bump
2 projects | /r/golang | 9 Jun 2022

We now use mage to cross-compile release binaries as proposed by u/g00py3 in this Reddit discussion.
//go:generate with ENV variables?
1 project | /r/golang | 18 May 2022

Try github.com/magefile/mage - it's written in Go and lets you write Go to run scripts rather than writing bash inside yaml ;)
Mage v1.13 is released - now supports magefiles in a subdir
1 project | /r/golang | 18 Mar 2022

Mage v1.13 was released as of yesterday. This included a few small fixes, and a big new feature - subdirectory support.
Ugly code, improvement suggestions needed
2 projects | /r/golang | 1 Jan 2022

If you need build automation, use mage.

taskflow

Posts with mentions or reviews of taskflow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning taskflow yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mage and taskflow you can also consider the following projects:

Cockatrice - A cross-platform virtual tabletop for multiplayer card games

goyek - Task automation Go library

xc - Markdown defined task runner.

PacketProxy - A local proxy written in Java

drone - Drone is a Container-Native, Continuous Delivery Platform [Moved to: https://github.com/harness/drone]

HattrickOrganizer - Assistant for Hattrick online football manager

go - The Go programming language

symphony-of-empires - Symphony of the Empires is a RTS strategy game and map game.

drone - Gitness is an Open Source developer platform with Source Control management, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. [Moved to: https://github.com/harness/gitness]

magarena - Magarena is a single-player fantasy card game played against a computer opponent.

keploy - Test generation for Developers. Generate tests and stubs for your application that actually work!