Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go

Re:Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go by alain_gilbert on Saturday January 19, 2019 @05:21PM (#18949562)

Oh wow, I didn't tried it yet, but reading the doc, it looks exactly how I imagine the perfect "make"/"task runner" should work.

"make" frustrated me so many times. I'll definitely try "task".

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Re:Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go by nine_k on Sunday January 20, 2019 @12:04AM (#18951253)

Take a look at Tup, too.

http://gittup.org/tup/

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Re:Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go by FeatureIncomple on Saturday January 19, 2019 @06:24PM (#18949881)

Thanks for these words!

Although I don't think this tool is perfect, I created Task exactly due my frustration with Make and the lack of decent alternatives.

Let me know if you any feedback after you try it.

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Re:Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go by alain_gilbert on Saturday January 19, 2019 @10:15PM (#18950742)

After giving a quick look, my tasks are twice faster with make.

So I was curious to know why and I tried to clone the project to debug it, and could not figure out how to setup the dependencies properly.

You should add a section how to contribute/develop.

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Re:Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go by FeatureIncomple on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:27AM (#18952339)

Yeah, a contributing guide would be nice. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm curious on why Make runs twice faster to you, since in most cases the difference should be negligible (i.e. the Task overhead should be insignificant compared to the time it takes to run the command).

Maybe you're running really lightweight, like `cp`? Otherwise I'd consider it a bug. Could you open an issue, then?

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Re:Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go by freedomben on Saturday January 19, 2019 @08:59PM (#18950461)

This project does look cool, I'll probably give it a whirl too.

If you're open to ruby, rake is an awesome and powerful tool that is a ruby DSL implementation of make. Learning rake was one of the best investments I made. Even tho I'm a polyglot these days, I still often use rake, even tho it does make some golang people vomit :-)

https://github.com/ruby/rake

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Re:Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go by FeatureIncomple on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:51AM (#18952416)

> I still often use rake, even tho it does make some golang people vomit

LOL.

I love both Go and Ruby. Each of them shines on different scenarios.

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