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Show HN: Werk, a simple build tool and command runner
Table of contents - Introducing Werk 💅 - Overview - Remarks Introducing Werk 💅 werk is a simplistic build system, similar to make, and a command runner, similar to just. It tries to be very easy to use, and religiously portable.
Specifically, Makefiles typically rely on the presence of external POSIX utilities, like sed, awk, and so on, and all of these interact in undesirable ways with Windows filesystems. There's a couple of uses of unsafe in the entire project, all trivial one-liners with guaranteed semantics (transparent reference casting), mostly related to converting between werk_fs::Path and str. Shout-out to the dependencies that made things significantly easier, and their authors: which, globset, winnow, clap, and smol.
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