Please – A cross-language build system
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Please – A cross-language build system
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Re: Please – A cross-language build system
#2Title can possibly be modified to mention that this is a tool to build code.
Re: Please – A cross-language build system
#3Style issue: the left nav text often overflows into the content area on mobile, making it painful to read.
Re: Please – A cross-language build system
#4Title can possibly be modified to mention that this is a tool to build code.
> Please (please.build)
'build' kind of indicates that
Re: Please – A cross-language build system
#5"Installing:
curl https://get.please.build | bash"
...one can stop reading there: this product is not aimed at this community.
Re: Please – A cross-language build system
#6Title can possibly be modified to mention that this is a tool to build code.
> Please (please.build) 'build' kind of indicates that
Unfortunately for those of us following HN through RSS readers (like Feedly) the URL doesn't show until you mouse over the link ... but even then, I agree adding that additional piece of information such as "build software" would be useful.
Re: Please – A cross-language build system
#7"Installing: curl https://get.please.build | bash" ...one can stop reading there: this product is not aimed at this community.
I don’t think this is a fair reason to write the tool off. They support Homebrew, and I’m sure will add other install methods in the future. Piping to bash is no worse than clicking “yes” on every step of an install wizard.
Re: Please – A cross-language build system
#8"Installing: curl https://get.please.build | bash" ...one can stop reading there: this product is not aimed at this community.
Do you think clicking "yes" on an installer is any more secure?
Re: Please – A cross-language build system
#9Title can possibly be modified to mention that this is a tool to build code.
> Please (please.build) 'build' kind of indicates that
Since far from all TLDs have reliable semantics and it's impossible to know all of them, it doesn't. And compiling a project from source code is not the only meaning of "build", not even in tech.
Re: Please – A cross-language build system
#10I love build tools, and work with them professionally, and this tool seems to be getting one thing quite right: it is not injecting itself into the dependency resolution process. Where I see build tooling fall down is where they try to replace the idiomatic dependency modeling tools that exist in each language.
The build logic and CLI experience looks to be well thought out. I really like the native sandboxing support and the intentional exclusion of the calling environment. There's a lot of polish here.