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Build systems with Andrey Mokhov

Signals and Threads

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Make Isn't Great From a Composability Perspective

Make isn't great from a composability perspective. We want to be able to take a piece of code and reason about it locally. The fact that make has a single global namespace gets in the way of that. Macros are essentially code that generates more code or in the context of make build rules that generate more build rules, which really does help. But macros can be incredibly hard to reason about.

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