Agreed. Is it that different than Make with `.PHONY` targets? Yes — it is Designed To Do Exactly What It Does, And It Does It Well. That counts for something in my book.
All my Justfiles start with this prelude to enable positional arguments, and a "default" target to print all the possible commands when you run `just` with no target name:
# this setting will allow passing arguments through to tasks, see the docs here
# https://just.systems/man/en/chapter_24.html#positional-arguments
set positional-arguments
# print all available commands by default
default:
@just --list
in mise you wouldn't need that preamble. `set positional-arguments` is just how it behaves normally and `mise run` doesn't just show available commands—it's also a selector UI
All my Justfiles start with this prelude to enable positional arguments, and a "default" target to print all the possible commands when you run `just` with no target name: