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I switched to samurai for the few things I have that still used ninja; it's an improvement in every possible way. But regardless, I think those kinds of build systems are just wrong. What I want from a build system is to hash the content of all the transitive inputs and look up if it exists or not in a registry.
### Statistics ### ninja has ~26 kloc, ~3,100 commits, and only a quarter of them by the original author (although by loc changed their weight is higher). Interesting! https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/graphs/contributors ### Bunch of other comments ### > users of ninja ... all Meson projects, which appears to increasingly be the build system used in the free software world; So, AFAICT, that hasn't turned out to b…
Im going to have to give your CUDA wrapper a look later. :)
I thought this was going to be about people buying less air fryers.
The name is great!
PS. It's possible to make it even faster if we implement this: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/2157 But you explained in the article that the tool intentionally lacks state, even tiny hints from previous runs.
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Im going to have to give your CUDA wrapper a look later. :)
I should say that unlike the author of ninja though, I am _very_ interested in user complaints and criticism, even if its not fully articulated and respectful. I _need_ contradiction and opposition to go beyond the bounds of my own conceptions as a almost-always-sole developer and sole maintainer of the library. I may not accept/agree with everything, but I'll at least know to take the concerns into consideration. An…
Anyone knows if it happened? Has the google research on latency been published?
> we talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues. A thousand times this! This puts into words something that's been lurking in the back of my mind for a very long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law > Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. — Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
> I also believe that programmers feel latency and it affects their mood even if they don't notice it. (Google has recently done some research in this area that kinda confirmed my belief, here's hoping they'll publish it publicly!) Anyone knows if it happened? Has the google research on latency been published?
I switched to samurai for the few things I have that still used ninja; it's an improvement in every possible way. But regardless, I think those kinds of build systems are just wrong. What I want from a build system is to hash the content of all the transitive inputs and look up if it exists or not in a registry.
Also, “not the thing I wanted” doesn’t mean “wrong”, simply because there are other people in the world with different preferences
I thought this was going to be about people buying less air fryers.
I thought of the smoothie blenders first too, but I can't see how they would ever have failed given how great they are. My life has changed since buying the first such blender about 4 months ago