I agree in principle but also there's a lot of worth in having them do that in certain cases, and build scripts and the like already have that anyway. Achievin

I agree in principle but also there's a lot of worth in having them do that in certain cases, and build scripts and the like already have that anyway. Achieving a perfect world where build tooling can only touch the things it really needs is less of a toolchain problem and more of an OS hardening issue. I'd argue that's outside the scope of the compiler and language teams.