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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Build Tools with Benjy Weinberger
Description: Writing software is an absolute joy. Getting software to build is a chore. Thus, build systems emerged as a solution to automate this chore. At some point software engineers either use or hear legends about make and makefiles. While perhaps being the historically known tool, a great deal of thought has gone into approaches to build systems since 1976 when make was introduced.In today’s episode, we focus on a build system called Pants. Pants is a scalable, software build system. It can help you support all the modern challenges of a build system such as...