Build systems with Andrey Mokhov
Signals and Threads
How to Write a Build Language in O'Khemel?
In Jenga we have two different levels at which things can be described at the front end. Developers describe build tasks in a very limited constraint and also simple language. That is parsed and analyzed by the build system itself which is written in O'Khemel. It has access to all the powerful O’Khemel features which allows us to analyze those build specifications and execute them as efficiently as possible. Not every build system works this way, make in particular does not. No one specifies their build in make by extending makes implementation in C. But that's actually a real problem. One of the things you run into with make is that as you put more and more pressure on
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