Alternatives to Makefiles written in Go

[utterances-bot]

Alternatives to Makefiles written in Go

First things first: what is make? Present in all Linux distributions and Unix derivatives such as macOS, the tool’s manual describes it as:

https://eltonminetto.dev/en/post/2024-05-26-alternatives-make/

[pellared]

There is also https://github.com/goyek/goyek which is a an alternative to Mage.

[Roemer]

And also https://github.com/Roemer/gotaskr as alternative to Mage, with an included VSCode Extension for easy running and debugging tasks directly from VSCode.

[marefr]

Thanks nice comparison. I'm biased and have only used mage besides make.

One nice thing with mage is that's its very easy to share common mage build targets - you can just import it like any other Go module. Not sure how the others mentioned compares here, but it's at least much harder with make and multiple repositories.

This can be very convenient when providing an SDK, for example as we're doing with https://github.com/grafana/grafana-plugin-sdk-go/tree/main/build. Whenever you update the SDK version the common build targets automatically follows. Example of a plugin using our common build targets https://github.com/grafana/grafana-plugin-examples/blob/main/examples/datasource-basic/Magefile.go. In addition, we allow the common base to be configured/extended for any plugins that have additional needs.

[philoserf]

Thank you. Great job. I've been using Taskfile for years now for go projects and system-wide for general automation too.

[fredrikaverpil]

There’s also https://github.com/einride/sage 😊

[kindermax]

I've been working on https://github.com/lets-cli/lets for the last 4 years. It has many similarities to task but with slightly different approach on subcommands args parsing