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> I use Make as the standard way to interact with every repo I own. This allows me to type `make build` instead of `$some-language-specific-command-I-forget-in-2-weeks`.

I also used to do this until I switched out Make by Just[1]. I find it worth a recommendation.

https://github.com/casey/just



Just like perl and grep, I stick to make because it's likely to be already available everywhere I need it. Such is the tyranny of the installed base. :/


I second this. “just” is like make, but without the extraneous/confusing parts.




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