Show HN: A statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system
45 points by Rochus
by lioeters
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I like the focus on simplicity, staying with C and no other requirements, and the choice of Lua. I'm a casual user of CMake but not too enthused about it, so I'll give this a try. Honestly I don't know if static typing is that important for me in this particular use case. I may just rummage through the codebase to see if I can extract a few choice functionality.
by drunken_thor
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It seems like this was built years ago but only posted now. Why post it now? It doesn’t seem like it has changed much in 4 years so I can’t see that it matured or stabilized over that time. I am sorry for my ignorance of c build systems, this very well might be in high use already.
Either way, it looks useful and built by hand so good job! Looks great and I hope people find it useful!
by yr_animesh
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So it is an alternative for CMake build systems?? The idea is quite new to me, I have only used CMake to build my low latency systems project... Lets use this!!
by xiaoyu2006
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I always wonder why use a DSL while you can just borrow some existing PL?
by Panzerschrek
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Using Lua is a fatal flaw. As a C++ programmer I don't want to learn yet another language for a build system.
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