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by steven-xu
1405 days ago
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General purpose build systems need to make API expressiveness, observability, performance, and correctness tradeoffs in exchange for their platform breadth. By narrowing breadth, most often by targeting only one ecosystem[1] or making correctness tradeoffs[2], new build systems can be way more expressive and performant. For now. They’re also fun to write because DAGs are parallelism are cool problems to think about. [1] e.g. only targeting one language allows you to use that language instead of a generalized DSL to describe your build graph
[2] e.g. abandoning sandboxing altogether and using manual invalidation or just trusting the user |
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