Yake Alternatives

Yake is described as 'Simple script to make Your coding more efficient by executing long commands using short aliases from local Yakefile' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Yake for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Yake alternative is CMake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Yake are GNU Make, Autark, SCons and LazFuck.

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xmake
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xmake is a cross-platform build utility based on Lua. The project focuses on making development and building easier and provides many features (e.g package, install, plugin, macro, action, option, task ...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Build System
Origin
China
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone
China
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Reggae build system
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Reggae is a (meta) build system with multiple front (D, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lua) and backends (make, ninja, tup, custom). This is alpha software, only tested on Linux and likely to have breaking changes made.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
Application type
Build System
Platforms
Windows
Linux
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