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> Everyone knows Python

No they don’t. Just like everyone doesn’t know Cobol, Fortran, Scala etc.

But by having a programming language as your build tool you now make it harder for new people to onboard. As in order to build project they often need to some unique, specific to the language syntax. And in order to find this syntax they look around on Github and because it’s a programming language every project has their own unique, specific to the project approach.

Versus something like Cargo.toml where it’s simple and consistent regardless of which project you look at.

parent threeseed 1 year ago

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