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> It'd be interesting to hear everyone's go to build tools. A script written in whatever the primary language of the project is (usually with some library supp
by wwwigham 9y ago
> It'd be interesting to hear everyone's go to build tools.
A script written in whatever the primary language of the project is (usually with some library support), ideally; to reduce the minimum required knowledge to be a first time contributor to the project. Some kind of js build tool for js projects, fake for f#, and so on. I don't want people to need to learn "the one build tool DSL to rule them all" (be that makefile syntax, bazel rules, or whatever) to contribute to a project's infrastructure, on top of the project's primary language.
- sevensor 9y agoSo for C? Fortran? You'd have users of those languages use those languages to write programs to do the build? But then, how would you keep them from generalizing their good ideas about builds into some kind of... system?
- adrianN 9y agoThat is a good way to have your build system expand until it can read email.