Nice to see other markdown-based task runners!

I'm the creator of mask which is another alternative, written in Rust. Our approaches slightly differ. It looks like xc parses the README.md file for commands while mask looks for a maskfile.md by default, though you can provide a --maskfile arg to specify any markdown file that follows the expected format.

MuffinFlavored

Let me ask a silly question.

Use case, I'm on Mac OS X (aka not Linux, not Windows). I have an Apple M1 processor (aka not x86_64). I have 8GB of RAM (silly mistake on my end, I know). Therefore, Docker + virtual machine based solutions are too expensive memory wise.

However, I also like to think in terms of "let me separate this functionality into say... a Kubernetes workload like a pod"

There's no good containerization solution for Mac OS.

Can something like `mask` be used to achieve basically a "poor man's k8s" for a long running service?

Basically, run these 5 or 6 services in parallel, let me be able to see their logs individually.

If not, I completely understand. I just can't tell if there is an actual need for a solution like this, if it already exists and I just can't find it, etc.

spmurrayzzz

Have you tried using a process manager like supervisord[1] or pm2[2]? The former has a pretty clean declarative interface that you could view as a replacement for something like a docker-compose file or a k8s pod config.

You don't get any containerization/isolation benefits obviously, but it sounds like you've already accepted that.

[1] http://supervisord.org/ [2] https://github.com/Unitech/pm2