Maybe it s bazelTrauma tm but pants feels too easy What are

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Maybe it s bazelTrauma tm but pants feels too easy What are some gotchas Foot guns Etc

wide-midnight-78598 · Answer

Too much free time

bitter-ability-32190 · Answer

Haha good question Most of us are honest objective about this I think My answers would be Less support for compiley stuff like C++ and Rust Plugin support is great but the bar is kinda high Maybe not any higher than Bazel but still Speed could be improved but we re improving it Bazel is BIG and its GOOGLE so it has a lot of support and tooling Pants doesn t get that much love aside from the wonderful Toolchain

wide-midnight-78598 · Answer

Echoing Josh s answers for some people it can be that the API is subject to change more than they might expect There are a lot of experimental plugins where experimental usually means API isn t stable but functionality is great

bitter-ability-32190 · Answer

Oh and honestly it ventures on bain as much as boon Sometimes I think Pants does so much people expect it to do everything man shrugging

purple-plastic-57801 · Answer

All wonderful points Has anyone considered a what pants isn t documentation page or blog post

broad-processor-92400 · Answer

Major gotcha it s hard to talk about pants with a straight face sweat smile

busy-vase-39202 · Answer

<https pantsbuild slack com archives C046T6T9U p1678754544058919 thread ts=1678754317 038639 amp cid=C046T6T9U|https pantsbuild slack com archives C046T6T9U p1678754544058919 thread ts=1678754317 038639 amp cid=C046T6T9U> While true a nice thing is that virtually all of these can be eliminated by more people getting involved in contributing So if you re enjoying Pants overall and want the few catches to be smaller becoming a contributor is a great way to benefit everyone

busy-vase-39202 · Answer

Also while Toolchain has by far the most employees who are paid to work full time on Pants the project is also very indebted to firms such as Vicara IBM iManage and Aiven which have each contributed substantial amounts of staff time long term to the project as well Any company that empowers its staff to dedicate time to Pants is making exciting new features possible

busy-vase-39202 · Answer

<https pantsbuild slack com archives C046T6T9U p1678754749256909 thread ts=1678754317 038639 amp cid=C046T6T9U|https pantsbuild slack com archives C046T6T9U p1678754749256909 thread ts=1678754317 038639 amp cid=C046T6T9U> We haven t discussed it but could you suggest what things people might be expecting from Pants that would need that kind of clarification Maintainers are not necessarily able to have that perspective on what preconceptions expectations newcomers might be applying to Pants

bitter-ability-32190 · Answer

For the record my praise of Toolchain was more about SaaS offerings that help boost an organization s use of tool Bazel has EngFlow and the other names are eluding me but there s a handful That being said I welcome competition in the marketplace smiling imp

busy-vase-39202 · Answer

We re always happy to accept praise for the SaaS offerings