[dj_gitmo]

I have always wondered if it would be possible to write a language agnostic package manager. Lord knows we probably don't need more programming languages, but it would be much easier to get on of the ground if it could just plug itself into an existing package manager.

[pdimitar]

Same here, and I periodically research but remain disappointed; people usually just write a tool to address their current pet peeve and 1-2 years later the tool is of course abandoned.

Using just[0] as a task runner has solved a lot of per-project-scripts problems for me but it still cannot do DAG analysis + parallel task running of tasks not blocked on each other (or allow you to opt into serial or parallel task running). So it remains firmly in just the "task runner" territory.

I know many people would jump at the opportunity to say "just learn `make`!" but no thanks, I value my sanity. `make` is also inheriting a lot of bash-ism weirdness which makes it even worse.

The mage[1] tool that uses `Magefile`-s might be it but it's a bit more verbose (as it's Golang) and I am not sure how well does it integrate with the shell. Maybe script[2] can be used to complement it.

Sadly I don't have the time (and lately the inclination) to experiment but there are tools out there and I wish we finally started unifying things.

[0] https://github.com/casey/just

[1] https://magefile.org/magefiles/

[2] https://github.com/bitfield/script