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by forrestthewoods 24 days ago
compilers and build systems are and should be different.

A good polyglot build system should support llvm and zig and python and literally any toolchain under the sun.
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himata4113 23 days ago
the problem is that you need a compiler capable of compiling said zig, python, rust. LLVM does that, you can compile something as untyped as javascript(with a lot of hacks) or as strict as rust.
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forrestthewoods 23 days ago
> the problem is that you need a compiler capable of compiling said zig, python, rust

no! No you do not!!

It’s perfectly totally fine to have multiple different compilers. Literally not a problem at all. That’s my point!

Compilers and build systems are separate. It is perfectly fine for one build system to invoke multiple different compilers.

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himata4113 23 days ago
cargo pretty much does that, but then you have to have to bundle all those compilers which becomes a fuckfest.
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forrestthewoods 23 days ago
Ehh. Cargo has build.rs but calling that a polyglot build system is like calling bash scripts a polyglot build system.

Buck and Bazel have the right architecture. Just need a version written fresh without all the baggage.

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