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Re:Taskfile: A Modern Alternative to Makefile by rakoo on Sunday July 16, 2023 @06:03AM (#36745250)
Plan 9 has introduced mk, a successor to make:

https://plan9.io/sys/doc/mk.html

It's basically the same with some niceties and good defaults. One of them is the introduction of attributes, the most prominent being virtual: a target can be virtual meaning mk will never check the existence of a file and always run the recipe.

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Re:Taskfile: A Modern Alternative to Makefile by morelisp on Sunday July 16, 2023 @06:35AM (#36745393)
I've had the pleasure of using mk on a single project once and it was nice, fixing about 80% of what I think is broken in Make.

However it's an extremely hard sell to bring into a corporate tech stack today for either brown or green field projects.

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