[packetlost]

One request that I would make of a project like this is to support distributed builds out of the box. Like, really basic support for identical builder hosts (this is much easier now than in the past with containers) and caching of targets. Otherwise, this looks great! Big fan of the choice of Lua, though the modifications to strings might make it difficult to onboard new users depending on how the modification was made.

[zombiezen]

Yup, remote building and caching is on my radar. I expect it will work much in the same way Nix does now, although I'm being a bit more deliberate in creating an RPC layer so build coordinators and other such tools are more straightforward to build.

The string tweak is transparent to users broadly speaking. IME with Nix this thing works the way people expect (i.e if you use a dependency variable in your build target, it adds a dependency).

[Glacia]

Xmake?