Public Domain Posix Make

• pdpmake

  7 95 5.9 C

  Public domain POSIX make

• m4

  1 18 10.0 C

  Portable OpenBSD m4.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• oil

  234 2,720 9.9 Python

  Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

  

Yeah I'm left scratching my head at the purpose of this project.

I wrote 3 GNU makefiles from scratch (a few hundred lines each) starting in ~2016 for https://www.oilshell.org/, and regret it. I switched to Python + Ninja, and I should have just used that all along.

So I think GNU make is already pretty old and regretted, and POSIX make even more so.

CMake + Ninja seems be pretty common these days, but for my project Python works fine. CMake is also a bad (shell-like) language, but I'm pretty sure it's better and more featureful than GNU make (i.e. you're less likely to need to switch build systems/languages due to a new requirement)

This thread has some interesting experiences ... it does seem like there needs to be a better high level language to generate Ninja

https://lobste.rs/s/7svvkz/using_bsd_make#c_bfwcyc

• xmake

  163 8,755 10.0 Lua

  🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

  

https://xmake.io/ kinda is Meson but with Lua instead of Python. Lua is embedded so no external dependency.

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