Show HN: A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go

Some interesting ideas for sure.

But by reading the "Usage" guide, I did not find how to implement this:

  EXEC = example.exe
  SOURCES = src/main.c src/example.c # ...
  OBJECTS = src/main.o src/example.o # ...
  HEADERS = includes/example.h # ...

  all: $(EXEC)

  $(EXEC): $(OBJECTS)
    $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $^ -o $@

  %.o: %.c $(HEADERS)
    $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@

On another note, make is not that hard, it's available on every platform, a Makefile can be very short even for complex build systems. I'm not sure replacing it with a YAML file is such a great idea.

Don't get me wrong, some of the features exposed here are very good and I would like to have them in make:

  - .env support and dynamic variables (like the GIT_COMMIT example)
  - namespaces
  - explicit fingerprinting
  - cleanup with defer
  - dry run mode