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by 6ren 4895 days ago
I now use bash instead of ant. It's really fast, makes sense, does whatever I want.

But it has the lisp problem (and now ruby problem) of everyone making their own tooling, without standardisation. (where a "standard" is procrustean: it doesn't exactly fit any situation, but the situation is forced to fit it). Pre-chasm innovators/early-adopters love it; everyone else hates it.

BTW: I don't think "contextual" is a very descriptive term ("composable" is great though)