Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 17 June 2016 at 05:41:30 UTC, Jason White wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 13:39:20 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> It would be a worthwhile trade-off, if those were the only two 
>> options available, but they're not. There are multiple build 
>> systems out there that do correct builds whilst being faster 
>> than make. Being faster is easy, because make is incredibly 
>> slow.
>>
>> I didn't even find out about ninja because I read about it in 
>> a blog post, I actively searched for a make alternative 
>> because I was tired of waiting for it.
>
> Make is certainly not slow for full builds. That is what I was 
> testing.

I only care about incremental builds. I actually have difficulty 
understanding why you tested full builds, they're utterly 
uninteresting to me.

> A build system  can be amazeballs fast, but if you can't rely 
> on it doing incremental builds correctly in production, then 
> you're probably doing full builds every single time. Being easy 
> to use and robust is also pretty important.

I agree, but CMake/ninja, tup, regga/ninja, reggae/binary are all 
correct _and_ fast.

Atila