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by eeZah7Ux
2035 days ago
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> You are spending your precious time and energy worrying about a resource whose marginal cost to you is about the same as a cup of coffee. I don't install tons of random garbage because I want to know and understand what is running on the hosts that I maintain. I need to be able to debug the stuff I run, and complexity makes it difficult. Tenths of MB of stuff is complexity. Tenths of build time or run time dependencies is complexity. A compiled tool when a script would have been sufficient is also complexity. |
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Bazel is way easier to debug than Make. Debugging a decent-sized build system made with Make is just an exercise in suffering.
I am… honestly… no longer interested in understanding the entire software stack. I understand my time on this earth is limited and want to spend it doing other things. With Bazel, I am spending less time fucking around with build systems and more time doing the stuff I care about.
> Tenths of MB of stuff is complexity. Tenths of build time or run time dependencies is complexity. A compiled tool when a script would have been sufficient is also complexity.
As someone who still writes C, I can understand the joy that people feel when you make some cool program and it’s measured in KB, not MB. However, what you’re describing strikes me as fetishistic.