Knit: Making a Better Make

1. tup

   1 25 1,200 6.9 C

   Tup is a file-based build system.

   

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3. Rake

   2 18 2,363 7.8 Ruby

   A make-like build utility for Ruby.

   

   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/

4. just

   3 198 24,396 9.4 Rust

   🤖 Just a command runner

   

   How does it compare to just?

   https://github.com/casey/just

5. remake

   4 4 803 0.0 C

   Enhanced GNU Make - tracing, error reporting, debugging, profiling and more

   

6. rabs

   5 2 11 7.4 C

   General purpose imperative build system.

   

   I've also written my own alternative to make called Rabs (https://github.com/wrapl/rabs) which uses an imperative language to specify the dependency graph as well as the build instructions. It's designed for really fast incremental builds.

7. BUSY

   6 26 86 3.7 C

   BUSY is a lean, statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system for GCC, CLANG and MSVC inspired by Google GN

   

   If you haven't seen it: https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY

   > BUSY is a lean, statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system for GCC, CLANG and MSVC inspired by Google GN

   It uses lua and config files that are mostly directories and filenames.

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