Hi HN,<p>[Sane][0] is a piece of software I've written to deal with my grievances with Make, Just, Bazel, Meson and other build systems or command runners.<p>I've always been frustrated by either 1. the opaque domain-specific languages, 2. the necessary installation processes, or 3. the difficulty to keep state coherently and to write logic.<p>Sane is a single Python3 file that exports a function decorator (@recipe), and a function (sane_run), which can turn any Python file into a Make-like utility: upon execution, a dependency graph is built, checked, and ran in deterministic order.<p>[GIF]: <a href="https://github.com/mikeevmm/sane/blob/master/demo.gif" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mikeevmm/sane/blob/master/demo.gif</a><p>There is no installation process, and no external dependencies; sane is made to be redistributed with the codebase. There are no domain specific languages, because everything is Python.<p>Thoughts are welcome.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/mikeevmm/sane" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mikeevmm/sane</a>