Modern alternatives to make
summary
Compares specific native build tools and what each actually does: Gradle wrapper is widely used for packaging and artifact management while still calling existing make builds, conan is a package manager not a build system and focuses on remotes and Artifactory integration, Bazel emphasizes incremental correctness and build speed for very large codebases, Buck shares Bazel’s design and Android focus, SCons is older Python-based incremental make replacement. Projects are implemented as repos with Docker images and CI pipelines for side-by-side testing.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 3:33Why Do We Need an Alternative To Make
- 4:41Developer Efficiency
- 6:41Scones
- 8:39Development Environment
- 9:22Gradle
- 11:47Features
- 14:23Implications about Gradle
- 15:05Basil
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