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This is the dependency list of the just command runner https://github.com/casey/just/blob/master/Cargo.lock And the helix editor https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/Cargo.lock Compare them to the dependencies of gnu make…

comment by skydhash · 2026-10-21 · in Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now

…but this is mostly an exploration of whether the idea works or not. [1] https://roc-lang.org/ [2] https://github.com/casey/just

comment by grayrest · 2026-08-20 · in Show HN: Kandelo – a POSIX-compatible multi-process WASM kernel for the browser

But sometimes it's applied properly! https://github.com/casey/just

comment by nine_k · 2026-08-17 · in Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

…in. I left the job, but I still talk to some of the folks there. They still love the recipes. [1] https://github.com/casey/just

comment by BeetleB · 2026-07-10 · in In Emacs, everything looks like a service

…git branches + tags + commits, commands from shell history, files, shell jobs, processes, etc. 2. https://github.com/casey/just for more structured scripting.

comment by mcevoypeter · 2026-04-13 · in Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

…all the slop-coding lately), just[1] is now a very mature and well thought out alternative. [1] https://github.com/casey/just

comment by axegon_ · 2026-04-03 · in Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

…Even something like ‘just’ have tens of deps, including one to check that something is executable. https://github.com/casey/just/blob/master/Cargo.toml That’s just asking for trouble down the line.

comment by skydhash · 2026-02-18 · in Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild

I've found https://github.com/casey/just to be very very useful. Allows to bind common commands simple smaller commands that can be easily referenced. Good for humans too.

comment by Maxion · 2026-02-17 · in Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?

https://github.com/casey/just is an uncursed make (for task running purposes - it's not a general build system)

comment by nicoburns · 2026-02-06 · in GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams

…traumatized time and time again from ever-growing complexity, I've started to embrace Just ( https://github.com/casey/just ) which is basically just a simpler Make. I tend to work across teams a lot, and make/just seems easier for people…

comment by embedding-shape · 2026-01-28 · in Make.ts

…just, it could be a command alias or something, I probably am overengineering that lol. [0]: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by embeng4096 · 2025-10-29 · in Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

…in pursuing this approach further, there exist a polyglot task runner named 'just' [1]. [1] https://github.com/casey/just?tab=readme-ov-file#shebang-rec...

comment by garganzol · 2025-10-05 · in Show HN: Run – a CLI universal code runner I built while learning Rust

Just is better choice imho https://github.com/casey/just

comment by zokier · 2025-10-01 · in Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run – Now Open Source

…have required excessive poring over the man page. [1]: https://github.com/kurtbuilds/checkexec [2]: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by herewulf · 2025-08-22 · in My other email client is a daemon

…them. I just hope muse stays mise, and doesn't become just[1] (whom I also install via mise) [1]: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by hks0 · 2025-06-29 · in Tools I love: mise(-en-place)

and another alternative: just https://github.com/casey/just

comment by ulbu · 2025-06-20 · in Learn Makefiles

This is excellent modern replacement for part where Makefiles get messy: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by llukas · 2025-06-20 · in Learn Makefiles

…end up biting me. I find that 90% of the time what I actually want is a command runner like Just ( https://github.com/casey/just ) and have the make file contain the absolute sheer minimum required to build code. While we’re at it, CMake…

comment by subjectsigma · 2025-05-29 · in Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook

…philocalyst/tap/infat`(haven't done it myself but I bet it has just as a dependency anyway) [1] https://github.com/casey/just

comment by alkh · 2025-04-24 · in Show HN: Infat – Declaritive application assocation manager for macOS

…also doesn't prevent more complex error states. For example this step from your config: curl -L "https://github.com/casey/just/releases/download/${{ matrix.just-version }}/just-${{ matrix.just-version }}-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz" \ |…

comment by 0xbadcafebee · 2025-04-08 · in Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell

…a script in a different language as your command, so it basically "supports bash scripts" too. https://github.com/casey/just

comment by DanHulton · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

I’ve just switched to using just https://github.com/casey/just for my makefiles that were really just a collection of small snippets and it’s worked wonderfully

comment by mwdomino · 2025-02-08 · in Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

…and supports shell scripting explicitly (so at least equivalent in power, though so is Make) [0]: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by hardwaresofton · 2025-01-21 · in I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again

I use `just` - https://github.com/casey/just and have a `docs` task. That runs a bash script that does all the heavy lifting (python install, and so on). Though given all the chatter on here in the last couple of weeks, I'd migrate some of…

comment by DrBazza · 2025-01-13 · in DoxyPress – Modern Doxygen

I haven’t used them yet, but I keep seeing people touting alternatives, and in particular “just”: https://github.com/casey/just This is primarily aimed at a “task runner” replacement rather than a “compilation with automatic file timestamp…

comment by TheTaytay · 2025-01-11 · in Be Aware of the Makefile Effect

…file: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-script-examp... . There's also tools like: https://github.com/casey/just and https://sagiegurari.github.io/cargo-make/ I rarely use multiple languages with Rust. A lot of interpreted…

comment by nostradumbasp · 2025-01-02 · in Static search trees: faster than binary search

…with the real world 99% of the time. Mocks in general are rarely worth it, the DB ones: 10x so. [0] https://github.com/casey/just

comment by pdimitar · 2024-12-30 · in Database mocks are not worth it

…things always become more complex that some script you do for your own specific use-case. [1]: https://github.com/casey/just/tree/v0.2.23

comment by hk__2 · 2024-12-08 · in Just: Just a Command Runner

Justfile[0] was a more familiar makefiles replacement for me [0]: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by zero-g · 2024-12-08 · in Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner

…have. I had a look at the top issues for just and pretty much all of them I've handled in mise: https://github.com/casey/just/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+... here's my unashamedly biased thoughts on why I like mise tasks compared to…

comment by jdxcode · 2024-12-07 · in Just: Just a Command Runner

…use-cases like CI, you are likely already coding in a proprietary YAML/JSON/XML format. [1] https://github.com/casey/just/blob/e1b85d9d0bc160c1ac8ca3bca... [2] https://taskfile.dev/usage/#prevent-unnecessary-work

comment by no_circuit · 2024-12-07 · in Just: Just a Command Runner

…the command, no need to prepend pyqwe or anything. See also justfile for a non-python specific tool https://github.com/casey/just Which I just learned can be installed with Python! https://pypi.org/project/rust-just/

comment by odie5533 · 2024-11-25 · in Pyqwe: The quick work environment for Python

…approach. These days I have completely switched to just[0] tool for similar use case. [0]: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by psibi · 2024-10-16 · in Show HN: Makedown – A Markdown powered Makefile alternative

https://github.com/casey/just?tab=readme-ov-file#what-are-th...

comment by xigoi · 2024-09-21 · in I Like Makefiles

I think just [1] is a good generic "do stuff" tool [1] https://github.com/casey/just

comment by feelamee · 2024-09-21 · in I Like Makefiles

https://github.com/casey/just https://just.systems/

comment by pletnes · 2024-09-21 · in I Like Makefiles

Agree with the sentiment here but I've been rewriting lots of things to use Justfiles instead https://github.com/casey/just Avoids lots of weird makefileisims

comment by AdamJacobMuller · 2024-09-21 · in I Like Makefiles

…this the default behavior, and is generally simpler to use. Things like parameters are simpler. https://github.com/casey/just

comment by bluejekyll · 2024-09-21 · in I Like Makefiles

…similar. If I had to submit a tip on top of yours, it's to use justfiles instead of Makefiles :-) https://github.com/casey/just

comment by BeetleB · 2024-09-16 · in Plain Text Accounting (PTA)

…set it up with proper apps and desktop environment settings. https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra https://github.com/casey/just

comment by duckmysick · 2024-08-26 · in Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting

If you’re going to use make, use just instead: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by hardwaresofton · 2024-08-24 · in Makefiles for Web Work (2022)

I find that https://github.com/casey/just is a great answer to a lot of problems in this thread. I have a justfile in all my projects now and I'm very happy.

comment by peauc · 2024-08-24 · in Makefiles for Web Work (2022)

You said the key word there, "just": https://github.com/casey/just This is what I use when I want the "common entry points" to a project, but don't need all the "make weirdness". It makes it very easy to essentially create a…

comment by DanHulton · 2024-08-24 · in Makefiles for Web Work (2022)

…didn't end. It looks like the project is using 'just' for command running (for those unfamiliar, https://github.com/casey/just ). It isn't my preferred way to do things but you probably have it already like I do. 20 minutes later: alright…

comment by survirtual · 2024-08-24 · in Slime mold simulation in Rust using WASM and WebGPU

…went looking in the docs and found this[0] which I'd missed last time I looked into justfiles. [0] https://github.com/casey/just?tab=readme-ov-file#what-are-th...

comment by mijoharas · 2024-07-13 · in Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust

…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

comment by pdimitar · 2024-06-16 · in I am not yet ready to switch to Zig from Rust

I find `just` to be better suited than `make` for this use case: https://github.com/casey/just The sibling's comment (re. just shell in files) is good too, and often I'll put all the various commands into a subdir, and `just` is just an…

comment by deathanatos · 2024-05-13 · in I'm tired of makefiles

…a lot of the workarounds necessary to use Make as a task runner and adds a few other features. https://github.com/casey/just

comment by keypusher · 2024-05-13 · in Show HN: Making GNU Make a better Task Runner

I don't like makefiles, but I've been enjoying justfiles: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by yboris · 2024-04-28 · in How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles

lol that's a purple link for me: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by AceJohnny2 · 2024-04-28 · in How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles