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So I took a quick look at the Jakefile and it doesn't seem like it does a whole lot more than shelling out and a little bit of file manipulation. I wonder if C

• boucher 14y ago
  Being able to work in JavaScript code is valuable to our users (and to the project itself). Learning make would be a significant barrier for many of them.
• halostatue 14y ago
  * Make introduces non-platform-related dependencies (e.g., you now need a make binary, not available by default on Windows, and not needed by anything else in the JavaScript development toolchain). * nmake, bsdmake, and gnumake are all slightly incompatible with each other if you want to do something smart.
• tlrobinson 14y ago
  IIRC, one reason we wrote a build system in JavaScript was the compiler itself ran in Rhino, and the startup time of the JVM/Rhino was ridiculously slow when shelling out to it for each source file (hundreds of times in a full build of Cappuccino). Having the rest of the build system and compiler running in the same process eliminated that latency. And yes, we tried Nailgun (http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/ http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/) but I don't recall why that didn't work out. Perhaps there were better solutions, just pointing out it wasn't completely NIH syndrome.