Pants - The History of Pants

Allen Wyma talks with Eric Arellano (they/them) and Stu Hood (he/him), maintainers of Pants, a build system made for monorepos.

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Timestamps

• [@00:10] - Pants’ Introduction
• [@01:26] - Different languages used in building Pants
• [@03:25] - Pants versions
• [@06:00] - Pants’ history and why it started
• [@11:09] - What is a Monorepo and why you would want to use it
• [@13:48] - Polyrepo vs Monorepo
• [@19:04] - What makes Pants unique
• [@21:03] - Why Pants needed to rewrite some parts from Python to Rust and other languages
• [@22:31] - Why Pants chose Rust
• [@25:46] - Pants 1 vs Pants 2
• [@27:12] - Challenges integrating Python and Rust
• [@29:03] - How Eric and Stu figured out which parts should be written in Python and which should be in Rust
• [@32:27] - Future plans and what’s next for Pants?
• [@36:15] - Shoutouts and parting thoughts

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma