Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Zero-install task/command runner implemented in Awk
Simple task/command runner with declarative goals and dependencies - xonixx/makesure
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Zero-install task/command runner implemented in Awk launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I know this could be considered blasphemous, but I constantly find myself using Make as a task runner. I have written my own task runner in the past, but somehow I always end up using make. I went, and I put together 3 quality of life snippets I use all the time and put it in a single makext.mk file that can be included in other Makefiles and wrote a basic readme for it. This is not meant to be a replacement for other task runners, but I do think it can be useful to some of you. https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/makext Check it out and see if it makes sense to you. Thanks…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Markdown defined task runner. Contribute to joerdav/xc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made this for my personal workflow, but I'd love to get feedback from the community.
2025 · simonask.github.io · its alternatives →
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A fast, cross-platform build tool inspired by Make, designed for modern workflows. - task/README.md at main · go-task/task
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · gobolinux.org · its alternatives →
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A sharp cut(1) clone. Contribute to sstadick/hck development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Task runner that helps you easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers - TekWizely/run
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Git powered terminal-based todo/note manager -- markdown note page per task. Single binary! - naggie/dstask
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An infinite runner in your terminal. Contribute to smallhadroncollider/ascii-runner development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mushak (Persian for Rocket) is a zero-config deployment tool for your own server.
Dec 2025 · mushak.sh · its alternatives →
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:red_circle: Functional task runner for Node.js. Contribute to deepsweet/start development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This project addresses the inefficiencies of traditional Dockerfile-based container builds where each customization layer creates storage bloat through duplicate dependencies from repeated apt-get install commands, network inefficiency from redundant package downloads across different images, and slow iteration cycles requiring full rebuilds of all previous steps. Our solution enables building minimal base images from scratch using debootstrap that precisely include only required components in the initial build, while allowing creation of specialized variants (Java, Kafka, etc.) from these…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! My name is Marko and I am working on a CI/CD system at harmont.dev, a CI/CD system that sucks slightly less. As I've been working on the cloud, I realized that the CLI might be generally useful as a task runner, even if you don't care for our CI/CD, and that's what I'm sharing here! Every CI system I've used at Tesla, Bun, and mesa.dev has had the same problems: stateless and slow (GHA), or stateful and horizontally unscalable (Jenkins), with YAML on top of either. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was the realization that all my Claudes are waiting upwards…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A fast, cross-platform build tool inspired by Make, designed for modern workflows.
2020 · taskfile.dev · its alternatives →
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Most projects I've worked on included a bunch of scripts for common tasks (installing dependencies, starting/stopping dev servers, testing and deploying changes, and so on). There are a few tools designed for this, such as Just (https://just.systems/) and Task (https://taskfile.dev/), and I know some people use Make as a task runner (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40333481), but I've always preferred the simplicity and universality of shell scripts. Bin CLI is a tool I wrote to add some of the niceties of these tools to shell…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:sunglasses: Bask in the convenience of a task runner for bash - jez/bask
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An incremental task runner for mono repositories. Contribute to simplesurance/baur development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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cod is a completion daemon for bash/fish/zsh. Contribute to dim-an/cod development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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make, but sane. Contribute to mikeevmm/sane development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple task management for the command line. Contribute to dparpyani/taskcmd development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simplistic todo list manager written in Go. Contribute to thewhitetulip/Tasks development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I have been building https://github.com/openrundev/openrun for the last few years and recently added Kubernetes support https://openrun.dev/docs/container/kubernetes. OpenRun is a declarative web app deployment platform, built for teams to deploy internal tools. There are many tools which try to simplify application deployments, but not many support declarative deployments. Even if app sources are fetched from git, creating new apps or updating app config requires imperative commands. Kubernetes is the dominant declarative approach, but it takes…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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