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I mean there's really not much difference between "VAR=val make x" and "make x VAR=val" now is there?

• marginalia_nu 1y ago
  Syntactically? No. Semantically? Yes.
  • lmz 1y ago
    I'm guessing the syntax was the part the poster was complaining about when they complained about the "dev experience".
    • marginalia_nu 1y ago
      Dunno, there are other aspects of environment variables that deteriorate the dev experience. They're very conducive to spooky action at a distance, since they're silently being passed along from parent-process to child-process (except when they aren't). They can cause a lot of annoying bugs, and sometimes it's hard to track down where they are coming from (especially when dealing with stuff running in containers).
      • 77pt77 1y ago
        > except when they aren't Like sudo for example. So many problems related to that.