computers
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What the scripts are going to replace is way worse. And I don't have time to perform comparative analysis of the gazillion presumably better replacements.
re: computers
@amiloradovsky it depends a lot on the codebase: in the "classical" setup the only serious alternative is cmake, which it much worse, imho (unless you need Windows support). I only wish they used a decent language, and not m4, ffs.
re: computers
@dimpase Agreed. I won't consider CMake any time soon, I expect. #Meson looks better, but it's still dependency on Python, under permissive license, and it's development happens on the silos, ATM. So I can't be super excited about it either.
I wish there was a build system a la Autotools but in #Guile. To complement #Guix and replace #Autotools in #GNU projects finally.
