| No worries, no one really talks about it, but you see makefiles all over. > Actually, this: `USER=my_name make psql` and this: `make psql USER=my_name` I don't like that much: No command line completion of `USER=my_name`. > Makefile targets like `mycluster-kubie` are nice, although they can result in a combinatorial explosion (if one needs two or more parameters). True, it's a bit inconvenient! > It seems to me that after all, it'll be Deno or maybe Rust "scripts" that I'll want to use, combined with Make — Make for building, and Deno for running things. This sounds wonderful -- the biggest downfall of make is when you start to try and do complicated things with it, so your usecase seems awesome. Make is good for that glue/orchestration in my opinion -- when you need to run pulumi/terraform right before you do some deno-scripted setup. > Thanks for the extra pieces of software :- ) Direnv looks nice, makes me nervous about security exploits though (seems it automatically parses a file in the current directory, sometimes provided by strangers, via a Git repo that maybe I just wanted to look at). Hmm, https://github.com/direnv/direnv/issues/23 "security considerations" Ahh so for that, I don't check in my `.envrc` folders but yeah that's certainly an issue -- whenever you encounter a `.envrc` you have to allow it though! Every time you enter a folder that direnv hasn't seen before, or the file in there changes, you have to run `direnv allow` for it to be taken up. > Didn't know about entr. Currently I use inotifywait (from package inotify-tools in Debian) Ahh then that's probably just as good -- A friend showed me entr like.... 10+ years ago now and it's been a trusted tool on projects ever since, whenever the language/framework doesn't really have it, or I feel like some bit of work needs to be more streamlined/shorter feedback. |
That sounds great, just like I would have hoped that it'd work. And, because of this: "or the file in there changes", in a way it's even safer than a Makefile — in that Make wouldn't notify me if the Makefile got changed, but Direnv does (and people might not remember to look at any Makefile diff after pulling from the repo). — Now I'm starting slightly thinking about if Direnv makes sense somewhere in my own project(s).