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You don't need a JS bootloader to write an OS in JS. The bootloader just drops the machine into some memory address for it to start executing your OS init script. that bit could be…

I wonder if it has something to do with how tech companies are relatively unaffected by the big sick.

It's pretty easy to wrap the typescript compiler however I've not seem many people use pure TS like that. Mostly people want to use webpack and TS together. Unfortunately webpack d…

Please takes sandboxing a bit further using kernel name-spacing to isolate builds and tests. It's an opt-in feature but you can bind to port 8080 in your tests and run them in para…

I recently added a config option so plz test will run tests in the package directory rather than the repo root (just like go test). Should make things a little easier.

In a word: simplicity Bazel has a lot of magic and crazy abstractions. Please is far easier to get your head around and as a result, far easier to bend to your iron will.

Hey guys! Thanks for checking Please out! I see a lot of recurring themes in the comments so I thought I would clear some things up. What is Please? Please is a multi-language buil…

Hey, Please maintainer here! One of the big differences to the other Blaze like build systems is Please actually doesn't treat any of the built in languages any differently to othe…

Please excels in a mono-repo situation. We built Please because we struggled to get Buck to handle Python, Javasript, and Java while having protobuf code generation for all these l…

Yup fair enough. Migrating build systems is hard. I've put some work into making migrating from a `go build` project to Please a bit easier. Banzai cloud recently migrated their [P…

Hey! Glad you liked it :D Please is owned by Thought Machine. They’ve recently (8 months) brought me on the project full time. We’re planning on putting together a dedicated IDE te…

Hey, I maintain please and will be the first one to admit we’re not the best at marketing it. We’ve mostly been focused on getting it up to scratch and only recently have we been t…

Can I shamelessly plug my build system https://please.build ? It’s a Bazel-like written in go with a focus on simplicity. I feel your pain, We had a lot of the same complaints with…