[mikepurvis]

In the Java/Groovy space, Jenkins and Gradle are the obvious ones.

I'm less familiar with the Lua world (not a gamedev), but this is an example of the kind of thing I'm imagining— a build system / task runner that's half lua and half C/C++: https://github.com/xmake-io

Having a modern on-prem replacement for Jenkins/Rundeck built in rust and exposing a roto interface rather than yaml definitions sounds like it would be great.

[cess11]

So, how is Rust better than these? What does it have that these lack?

[airstrike]

Package management, expressiveness, community, open source code availability... a helpful compiler and goated type system.... overall sanity