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An AI-first build platform that connects everything from your editor to CI. Helping you deliver fast, without breaking things.
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minio
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license.
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cockroach
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
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Nuitka
Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4-3.13. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.
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monorepo.tools
Your defacto guide on monorepos, and in depth feature comparisons of tooling solutions.
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Buck
Discontinued A fast build system that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules over a variety of platforms and languages.
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Hence, a higher number means a better pants alternative or higher similarity.
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Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years
https://somesocks.github.io/dryad/
One other alternative I know of that's multi-language is Pants(https://www.pantsbuild.org/), which has support for packages in several languages, and an "ad-hoc" mode which lets you build packages with a custom tool if it isn't officially supported. They've added support for quite a few new tools/languages lately, and seem to be very much an active project.
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Building smarter Docker Images for your development environments with Pants 🚀
Enter Pants, a build tool designed to manage dependencies, optimize builds, and save you countless hours of waiting for Docker builds to finish. While Pants doesn’t directly create development environments, it does the heavy lifting of creating smart, optimized Docker images that are perfect for tools like Dev Containers, or even plain Docker CLI.
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Astral: Next-Gen Python Tooling
> As for Python package management, my team is migrating to Bazel which has its own way of locking in the Python dependencies and then pulling them from a remote cache. Under Bazel, we are only re-examining the dependencies when someone proposes a change to produce the lock. It's so rare, that having a new+faster thing that does this part would not present a meaningful benefit.
Have you considered Pants[0], Buck[1] or Waf[2]? What ultimately made you decide to go for Bazel?
0: https://www.pantsbuild.org/
1: https://buck2.build/
2: https://waf.io/
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Ask HN: Best Tools for Monorepo?
As someone who had never used a monorepo before and wanted to set one up for the first time, https://www.pantsbuild.org/ seemed intuitive to me and of an apparently good provenance. Their Slack community also answered every question I had and righted my wrongs 100% of the time, which went a long way.
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Ruby: A great language for shell scripts
You actually can distribute a whole executable, python and all, with .pex tools: https://docs.pex-tool.org/
You have to mind your dependency packages and build options if you want cross-platform, but you can also "cross compile" to make distributions for a platform.
Pants is in some ways even better for building .pex files, managing options, dependencies, and lockfiles, at the expense of a bit of more complexity (understanding pants options): https://www.pantsbuild.org/
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The xz attack shell script
> C/C++'s header system with conditional inclusion
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say something like "older build systems"? I don't think any of the things you listed are "modern". Which isn't a criticism of their legacy! They have been very useful for a long time, and that's to be applauded. But they have huge problems, which is a big part of why newer systems have been created.
FWIW, I have been using pants[0] (v2) for a little under a year. We chose it after also evaluating it and bazel (but not nix, for better or worse). I think it's really really great! Also painful in some ways (as is inevitably the case with any software). And of course it's nearly impossible to entirely stomp out "genrules" use cases. But it's much easier to get much closer to true hermeticity, and I'm a big fan of that.
0: https://www.pantsbuild.org/
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Monorepo + Microservices + Dependency Managment + Build system HELL
Does pants/bazel can help me?
- Pants 2: The ergonomic build system
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Go Dependency management in large company projects - How do you do it?
Hyper-large tech companies managing hyper-large monorepos using Bazel (google), buck (Facebook), please (thought machine), pants (Twitter, Foursquare & Square) enjoy them but also have a lot of resources devoted to running and maintaining it.
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Reason to use other Build Tool than Make?
Yeah there's definitely some alternatives out there. Pants is another one that has a lot of traction.
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The primary programming language of pants is Python.
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