--- title: aappleby/hancho | daily.dev description: Hancho is a simple build system inspired by Ninja and Bazel. It aims to assemble and run commands quickly, without the need for separate build rule... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/aappleby-hancho-391jg1zkv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: aappleby/hancho | daily.dev og:description: Hancho is a simple build system inspired by Ninja and Bazel. It aims to assemble and run commands quickly, without the need for separate build rule... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/aappleby-hancho-391jg1zkv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/391Jg1ZKv.png og:image:alt: aappleby/hancho og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # aappleby/hancho **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hancho is a simple build system inspired by Ninja and Bazel. It aims to assemble and run commands quickly, without the need for separate build rule invocations. Build rules can be invoked as functions with keyword arguments, and they can also call arbitrary Python code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#bazel](https://daily.dev/tags/bazel) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/aappleby-hancho-391jg1zkv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"aappleby/hancho","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/aappleby-hancho-391jg1zkv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/aappleby-hancho-391jg1zkv"},"datePublished":"2024-03-03T16:46:12.621Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z","description":"Hancho is a simple build system inspired by Ninja and Bazel. It aims to assemble and run commands quickly, without the need for separate build rule...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/22a6d9e150c0703b5305a74d9defe701?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/22a6d9e150c0703b5305a74d9defe701?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/aappleby-hancho-391jg1zkv","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"python,bazel","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"aappleby/hancho"}]} ```