I imagine, there's various smaller differences in how the recipes are defined, but yeah, this is the big one.
I find that Just feels a lot like just a collection of script files, with built-in error handling for argument parsing and during execution. And it also offers easier discovery of available tasks and how to use them.
I've often been able to alias drun='docker compose run --rm --build' and simplify down to:
drun test
Should be able to encode all those wayward args into docker-compose.yml or Dockerfile and only use vanilla docker commands -- that's the whole point of containerization
The env file is the weirdest part, the container itself has a required environment variable and if I don’t pass it in command line (only have it in the test compose file) the base compose fails because it has no port.
Most of the other commands are to merge the compose files so I can keep my base compose file clean!