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  5. Cake (C# Make) vs psake

Cake (C# Make) vs psake

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Overview

psake
psake
Stacks3
Followers6
Votes0
GitHub Stars1.6K
Forks273
Cake (C# Make)
Cake (C# Make)
Stacks8
Followers7
Votes0
GitHub Stars4.1K
Forks757

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Detailed Comparison

psake
psake
Cake (C# Make)
Cake (C# Make)

It is a build automation tool written in PowerShell. It avoids the angle-bracket tax associated with executable XML by leveraging the PowerShell syntax in your build scripts.

It is a free and open source 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.

Build automation tool ; Avoids the angle-bracket tax associated with executable XML ;Easier to script
Cross platform & cross runtime; IDE integration; Reliable ; Batteries included; Open source & community backed
Statistics
GitHub Stars
1.6K
GitHub Stars
4.1K
GitHub Forks
273
GitHub Forks
757
Stacks
3
Stacks
8
Followers
6
Followers
7
Votes
0
Votes
0
Integrations
TeamCity
TeamCity
Hudson
Hudson
.NET Core
.NET Core
Atom
Atom
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
.NET
.NET
Visual Studio
Visual Studio

What are some alternatives to psake, Cake (C# Make)?

FinalBuilder

FinalBuilder

With FinalBuilder you don't need to edit xml, or write scripts. Visually define and debug your build scripts, then schedule them with windows scheduler, or integrate them with Continua CI, Jenkins or any other CI Server.

SCons

SCons

It is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of it as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In short, it is an easier, more reliable and faster way to build software.

Tulsi

Tulsi

Build Apple-targeted software of any size, quickly and reliably, just as engineers do at Google. It integrates Bazel (Google's build tool) with Apple's Xcode IDE. It is currently in Beta but is broadly used within Google.

Redo

Redo

It is a competitor to the long-lived make program. Unlike other such competitors, it captures the essential simplicity and flexibility of make, while avoiding its flaws. It manages to do this while being simultaneously simpler than make, more flexible than make, and more powerful than make, and without sacrificing performance - a rare combination of features.

Conveyor

Conveyor

It makes distributing desktop and command line apps as easy as shipping a web app. It's a tool not a service, it generates self-upgrading packages for Windows, macOS and Linux using each platform's native package formats without requiring you to have those operating systems.

Fleet for Rust

Fleet for Rust

It is the blazing fast build tool for Rust. It makes your rust builds up to 5x faster. It works by optimizing your builds using existing tooling available in the Rust ecosystem.

Buck2

Buck2

It is an open source, extensible, and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faster and more efficient.

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