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Top 23 Rust Build system Projects
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Project mention: Malware found on NPM infecting local package with reverse shell | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-26
See https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13897 and https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13897#issuecomment... .
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In our projects we use Moon https://moonrepo.dev/moon extensively, it supports multiple languages and quite a few features.
For me personally I like that it updates Typescript references automatically and makes docker image setup far easier.
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Project mention: Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-31
Well, I don't use makefiles to deploy software with Rust. I also have never used lex or yacc, but I bet there are similar tools in the ecosystem, or wrappers for those. That would obviate what I will offer below.
Often a new language in a project would define an application boundary. So those would be different containers or services. I may deploy via container images, or an OS specific installer, etc. If we aren't crossing an application boundary I may use FFI. Sometimes I use https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-bindgen/ to smooth that over for C dependencies. There is also a nice concept called a build.rs file: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-script-examp.... There's also tools like: https://github.com/casey/just and https://sagiegurari.github.io/cargo-make/
I rarely use multiple languages with Rust. A lot of interpreted languages have bindings through crates and can go in to a project through Cargo. If it involves JS/TS on desktop, I'm usually using Tauri for that. Guess it depends on the system?
Hopefully that helps. You can also still use a Makefile if you want I just haven't dealt with one in a long time.
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My problem with maintaining a changelog during development is it can serve as a source of merge conflicts. Instead, I follow Covnentional Commit style and manually write my changelog entries based on the commits. I have a tool [0] that can show me the relevant commits for a package in my repo and automates the entire release process, including doing sanity checks.
I also feel like releasing from CI is hard, especially if you have multiple packages in a repo [1], including
- You can't as easily introspect the process
- You can't as easily recover from failure
- Getting a lot of the nuance right, like handling releases concurrent to merging of PRs, is difficult
- When the workflow is an ever-present "release PR" that you merge when ready has issues with selecting which packages to release and at what version
I have been considering making a tool to generate changelogs from fragments. Been keeping notes at https://github.com/epage/epage.github.io/issues/23
[0]: https://github.com/crate-ci/cargo-release
[1]: https://github.com/MarcoIeni/release-plz/discussions/1019
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Project mention: N2: An alternative ninja implemrntation in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-16
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cargo-bitbake
cargo extension that can generate BitBake recipes utilizing the classes from meta-rust
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fac
Fac is a general-purpose build system that runs on Linux only, which automatically tracks dependencies by observing the build commands in operation. (by droundy)
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The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Build system projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cargo | 13,392 |
| 2 | cargo-edit | 3,189 |
| 3 | moon | 3,146 |
| 4 | cargo-make | 2,720 |
| 5 | toast | 1,586 |
| 6 | cargo-release | 1,409 |
| 7 | cargo-update | 1,305 |
| 8 | cargo-outdated | 1,283 |
| 9 | cargo-modules | 1,084 |
| 10 | cargo-script | 741 |
| 11 | n2 | 403 |
| 12 | cargo-benchcmp | 352 |
| 13 | Zork | 154 |
| 14 | overflower | 105 |
| 15 | shipp | 101 |
| 16 | cargo-check | 97 |
| 17 | cargo-bitbake | 84 |
| 18 | cargo-testify | 81 |
| 19 | fac | 78 |
| 20 | salo | 37 |
| 21 | elite | 27 |
| 22 | TokenParser | 20 |
| 23 | cargo-do | 20 |
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