[zyedidia]

Thanks! Perhaps I shouldn't have characterized phony rules as a hack, but just that I think it is cleaner to express that information directly in the rule rather than in a separate rule. The paper you link is great, and I should read it in more depth -- are there any particular lessons or insights from it that you think Knit or other build systems could benefit from?

[AceJohnny2]

It's been a while, but one of the more powerful insights I remember, in this era of compute farms, is abstracting out the Store to be cloud-aware (kinda like ccache, but integrated in the builder. I think Bazel does this?)

[irq-1]

If you haven't seen it: https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY

> BUSY is a lean, statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system for GCC, CLANG and MSVC inspired by Google GN

It uses lua and config files that are mostly directories and filenames.