[OldOneEye]

I discovered Just with a similar comment in Hacker News and I want to add my +1.

It is so much better to run scripts with Just than it is doing it with Make. And although I frankly tend to prefer using a bash script directly (much as described by the parent commenter), Just is much less terrible than Make.

Now the only problem is convincing teams to stop following the Make dogma, because it is so massively ingrained and it has so many probems and weirdnesses that just don't add anything if you just want a command executor.

The PHONY stuff, the variable scaping, the every-line-is-a-separate-shell, and just a lot of stuff that don't help at all.

[0xbadcafebee]

Make has a lot of features that you don't use at first, but do end up using eventually, that Just does not support (because it's trying to be simpler). If you learn it formally (go through the whole HTML manual) it's not hard to use, and you can always refer back to the manual for a forgotten detail.