Speculative: Rust for base system components

[Jonathan Anderson]

On 31 Dec 2018, at 23:16, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> 1) make doesn't seem to be sufficient to correctly describe a 
> dependency
> tree to allow incremental/partial builds (at, everyone I'm aware of 
> who
> has a successful incremental build system has started by migrating off
> make).  This means that a significant part of the work will be 
> re-writing
> the FreeBSD build system into something else like (eg) Bazel.

Or Fabrique? :)

https://fabriquer.github.io

That page is a bit out of date with respect to the language as it 
currently stands, but the essentials (and the aspirations!) are still 
the same.


Jon
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Jonathan Anderson
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