The article discusses the concept of a 'postmodern build system' that prioritizes trustworthy incremental builds through sandboxing and treating build jobs as pure functions. The author, who has gained experience working with Facebook's Buck2, argues for a system that eliminates build identity to prevent incremental build bugs and enable better multitenancy. The proposed approach emphasizes computation reuse while ensuring reliability, though it may be more computationally expensive.
Background
Build systems are crucial tools in software development that automate the process of compiling source code into executable programs. Modern build systems like Buck2, Bazel, and others aim to optimize build times through incremental and distributed builds.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Jun 2, 2026 at 01:29 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10