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by soerxpso 1064 days ago
Personally I see "doesn't scale well" as a feature, if I'm evaluating something to use on a personal or small project. Tools with clear limits on what they're not for usually have a more polished experience for what they are for.
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Which is why I said he should be more upfront about it. I had to find that statement buried after 30 minutes of reading how amazing fossil was.
In that case you might really love "...SCons, a popular Python-based build tool. In a nutshell, my experiments showed that SCons exhibits roughly quadratic growth in build runtimes as the number of targets increases" [0]

[0] https://blog.melski.net/2013/12/11/update-scons-is-still-rea...