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Cake (C# Make) is a cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
United States

Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
RKD: Task executor - balance between Makefile and Gradle. Written in Python. Powerful tool for every DevOps. Automates production tasks as well as local development tasks.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD


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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
United States

Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- React
- Node.JS
- Vue.js
- Typescript

Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
China


A modern build, configuration management, ci/cd tool for automation Flexible data modelling, design of composition, OO and test driven Comprehensive workflow orchestration: full support all type of condition, loop(recursive), break, assert.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD


Bazel is an open-source build and test tool similar to Make, Maven, and Gradle. It uses a human-readable, high-level build language. Bazel supports projects in multiple languages and builds outputs for multiple platforms.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
United States

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
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Werk is a command runner and simplistic build system. It is intended to supplant Make in projects that need a simple build tool adjacent to a main build system, such as Cargo or NPM.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Rust
- Linux
- Mac
- Windows
- BSD































