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There is something extremely weird about the idea of having a build system for a particular language. It is not uncommon for a project to have multiple language
by cjfd 7y ago
There is something extremely weird about the idea of having a build system for a particular language. It is not uncommon for a project to have multiple languages and it is also possible that some of the source code in one language is generated by an executable in another language. Because of this and because of compatibility issues the correct number of build systems to exist is 1. If there is more than 1 in a single project it will be the case that sometimes more is rebuilt than necessary.
- vinceguidry 7y agoYes I wouldn't ever want more than one build system. I use Rake to build Crystal, and haven't even bothered to investigate Crystal's offering.
- regularfry 7y agoRake isn't for Ruby any more than Make is for C. It comes from that ecosystem, but you can use it for anything. If you've got a system ruby installed, you've probably also got rake.
- davidjnelson 7y agoExactly. Remember in 2010 before grunt a lot of us were using maven to build single page JavaScript apps? That was pretty funny in retrospect :-) The creator of angular created the precursor to the karma test runner, called jstestdriver, which was a maven plugin ;-) It worked though! We built a single page app with tdd using it at Autodesk.