Jai compiles 80,000 lines of code in under a second

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On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 02:44:57 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
> 2. He created a standard (and presumably mandatory) build tool 
> to go along with his language, but is avoiding *calling* it a 
> build tool...even though it's clearly just a build tool that 
> happens to be built into the compiler.

> 3. You can embed your buildscript into one of your project's 
> existing source files, instead of putting it in a dedicated 
> buildscript file.

I understand that the build tool is the compiler itself, 
presumably providing some functions/hooks for the build script, 
which is part of program itself written in the language itself. 
It seems to me that this approach is superior to the usual build 
systems in many ways: complete control of the build, no external 
program/lib needed apart from compiler, no other language to 
learn.

Note that the build can be done at compile time because the 
metaprogramming capabilities of the language are not limited in 
terms of system calls.