Build systems with Andrey Mokhov
Signals and Threads
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Build Systems a La Carte
I worry it will drive things even more to be language specific, right? We understand there's lots of good theory around parsers, but we don't have cross-language parsers. Every language implements its own little parser. And this maybe sadly pushes in the direction of every language building its own little build system. It's sort of ironic that this whole system, a big part of its job is to avoid duplicating work are achieved by an enormous amount of duplication of work. So let me go back to build systems a la carte. One of the things that really struck me about the paper when I first saw it is that it also describes Excel.
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