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
