A fresh (ironic? maybe!) approach to project task management.
Apparently terminals are going through some sort of modern renaissance where old, antiquated tools are being replaced with hip, fresh tools. I'm hopping on the bandwagon.
See:
Non-trivial projects have tons of little tasks that need to be run from time to
time: compiling, installation, building Docker images, linting /
autoformatting, tests, publishing to a package index, etc. Most languages or
frameworks will have their own specific tool to manage some of these tasks,
but if you have a multi-component project, it's likely that you'll end up
memorizing a half-dozen different incantations for various tasks. And then
you'll get tired of remembering them and put them in shell scripts. And then
you'll get tired of organizing shell scripts so you'll put them in a good ol'
Makefile. This is all fine and dandy until you realize that Make is a hot
pile of mom's spaghetti. It was designed for describing compilation chains, so
refitting it as a task runner / organization scheme is somewhat clunky.
Mold aims to be an understandable, consistent, and simple task runner that supports projects with multiple subsystems, various scripting languages, and/or a multitude of magic spells that need to be organized in a nice, happy way. It focuses on composability via reusable modules, parameterization via environment variables and conditional checks, and equality between dev and CI/CD environments.
TODO finish more
- moldfile structure
- YAML vs TOML
- recipes
- command
- script
- file
- modules
- runtimes
- includes
- variables
- environments
mold.sh- working in CI