Similar projects

• mask
• maid
• saku

There are a few projects that tackle the same concept (a Markdown makefile). Most of them are superior task runners, so if you're looking for a make replacement, I recommend exploring the links above. What I like about howzit (and what keeps me from switching) is that it's documentation-first, and that I can display the description for each topic on the command line. The others also don't have options for listing topics or runnable tasks, so I can't use completion (or my cool script that adds available tasks to my MacBook Pro Touch Bar...). But no, I don't think howzit is as good an overall task runner as mask or maid.