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This doesn’t exactly shine well on mongo’s development practices. Why go through all of this trouble when you could use something that works well out of the box
by matthewbauer 7y ago
This doesn’t exactly shine well on mongo’s development practices. Why go through all of this trouble when you could use something that works well out of the box like CMake? Maybe they like wasting money.
- ncmncm 7y agoThe answer is the same as everywhere: history. Not just the product build, but continuous integration, test suites (test themselves are largely JS, of course) and release management, are all tied together with Scons and lots of custom Python. It would just be a huge job migrating to something else, for little better possible result than "it still works". And it does already work.