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xc vs mask: catalog facts
xc	mask
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, Command line	Windows, Command line
Tasks live in readable Markdown or org-mode docs Commands stay usable even without xc installed	Task definitions double as readable project documentation Plain Markdown file instead of Makefile syntax
Less powerful than Make for complex dependency graphs Still pre-1.0	Requires learning the maskfile Markdown conventions No GitHub releases listed; installed through package managers or Cargo
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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