Finally a decent alternative to make? (opens in new tab)

Please don't editorialize submission titles. It's against the HN guidelines. This is a link to the go-task/task repo, which describes itself as a "Simple task runner / Make alternative written in Go".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I hate to break it to the author - despite the effort put in, task is solving the wrong problem. The biggest problem in build systems is not the syntax, it's dependency management and reproducibility.

Buck / Bazel and to a very minimal extent make, get this right. There are pattern match rules and extensibility rules. The dependency graph largely works.

Task is trying to be a decent make alternative, but it's solving a years old problem. The next problem in build systems needs more thought and execution.

Best wishes, Divye

Yes, it's a decent syntax sugar alternative for the kids. But it's not going to win if it doesn't solve the real problem: reproductive builds. A problem that CMake (and similars) are really trying to solve.

What about tup? http://gittup.org/tup/

There's a million decent alternatives to Make. None of them are installed as standard software on every Unix-like system.