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

Re:Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go by snarfy on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:06AM (#18952271)

As someone who's been using makefiles for about 30 of those years, I have to say make sucks. It's barely evolved at all. There is a reason there are so many alternatives to it, and it's not be because it's trendy. I mean, you can't even copy a file with it. That takes an external program.

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Re:Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go by convolvatron on Sunday January 20, 2019 @10:20AM (#18953405)

it does. unfortunately its still the one i reach for because it never seems like a good time to research alternatives.

generally the tools that are optimized to make the common case easy aren't so useful to me because i often have alot of intermediate build artifacts/stages.

and i really like the declarative nature of make..just not all the fragility and warts.

does anyone have any suggestions for a nice general declarative alternative?

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Re:Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go by FeatureIncomple on Sunday January 20, 2019 @12:46PM (#18954315)

> I often have a lot of intermediate build artifacts/stages

I don't know your use case in depth, but I don't see why Task wouldn't work for you, since it's similar to Make in this regard.

You can have multiple tasks (for each step) and then either set dependencies or have a task that call all other tasks in the right sequence. And, of course, you'd have to enable [this](https://taskfile.org/#/usage?id=prevent-unnecessary-work).

Anyway, seems that Make is already enough for you, since you're used to it's quirks.

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