"Build Systems à la Carte" is not so much ringing a bell as shattering it with the force of its dong. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/201

"Build Systems à la Carte" is not so much ringing a bell as shattering it with the force of its dong. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/03/build-systems.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0... To expand, the OP ends with an "ideal world" that sounds to me an awful lot like someone's put the full expressive power of Build Systems à la Carte into a programmable platform, accessible by API.