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What is task?

• alex-moon 8mo ago
  It is like make but designed specifically for the way non-C(++) users - people like me for example adding scripts like "make run" and "make build" to my node/python/PHP/etc repos - use it. It is great! I still don't use it literally just because make is already installed on any *nix system I encounter day to day.
  • renewiltord 8mo ago
    I used task previously and now use mise for it since I have a mise version file usually anyway.
  • temporallobe 8mo ago
    Interesting, I have never compared make with task but I suppose there’s some overlap. My favorite feature is that it’s cross-platform. I do use it for performing complex builds (like chaining several environment setup and docker compose commands, etc.). Of course you could do this with shell scripts, but this adds a layer of abstraction.