Using Make – writing less Makefile

• Task

  118 11,011 9.6 Go

  A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go

  

  A similar tool is `task` https://taskfile.dev/ . It is quite capable and also a single executable. I've grown to quite like it.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.

  

• just

  176 20,036 9.5 Rust

  🤖 Just a command runner

  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

• ninja

  51 11,005 8.7 C++

  a small build system with a focus on speed

  

• .files

  4 4 8.9 Shell

  No place like ~ (by matheusmoreira)

  The real makefile that I use and wrote about has some features that I didn't get around to describing in the blog post. Also has a ton of comments.

  https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/GNUmake...

  The metaprogramming template I described is used to implement XDG Base Directories. The links take the XDG variables into account while the real files live in their default locations inside the repository.

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