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Indeed; I've always wondered what is it that's keeping us from having a saner alternative to make in the form of a simple yet more powerful interpreted language
by Koshkin 7y ago
Indeed; I've always wondered what is it that's keeping us from having a saner alternative to make in the form of a simple yet more powerful interpreted language with all needed procedures and functions built in.
- smilliken 7y agoYou're describing Nix: https://nixos.org/nix/ https://nixos.org/nix/ It fills the same niche as make, but is a pure functional programming language, reproducible, and has a large package repository. It's pretty much my favorite piece of software because it allows me to depend on third party packages with minimal risk of breaking the build.