Mk: A Successor to Make [pdf]

• plan9port

  28 1,559 5.0 C

  Plan 9 from User Space

  

I tried plan9port's mk for a moment out of curiosity. I quickly ran into an annoying usability problem: it compares file mtimes with second accuracy.

https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/cc4571fec67407652b03...

With sub-second build times for individual targets, this causes mk to needlessly recompile files because the target may have the same mtime as the prerequisites.

• tup

  23 1,139 7.7 C

  Tup is a file-based build system.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• job-runner

  1 0 3.3 Python

Here is my silly alternative. You just write bash, with preconditions annotations to describe what can run in parallel.

https://github.com/adamgordonbell/job-runner/blob/main/tests...

• mk

  1 3 10.0 Go

  make remade (by henesy)

I own a couple books on Make and it's a great tool, but I learned how to use Mk by just reading the manpage. It's a huge improvement and simplification at the same time.

There's a solid, [stand-alone implementation of mk in golang](https://github.com/henesy/mk). No plan9 environment needed.

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