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curved-manchester-66006
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proud-dentist-22844
04/07/2023, 4:59 AMI'm so glad pants uses real python instead of starlark. There are some DSL-like pants-isms, but it's a lot more approachable than the stuff I've seen in starlark.
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bitter-ability-32190
04/07/2023, 5:07 PMA lot of their new shiny features are features of the pants engine.
Although @witty-crayon-22786 we should check out that terminal library. If they can leverage PEX, we can leverage their terminal library
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witty-crayon-22786
04/07/2023, 5:08 PMheh. yea.
witty-crayon-22786
04/07/2023, 5:09 PMthey cite us on https://buck2.build/docs/why/
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bitter-ability-32190
04/07/2023, 5:09 PMAlso @busy-vase-39202, look another "we rewrote it in Rust, it's now V2".
So now there's 2 build systems that have that claim. Not a ton, but funny there's two
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bitter-ability-32190
04/07/2023, 5:10 PMOh, they could here among us!
👋
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busy-vase-39202
04/07/2023, 5:11 PMThey announced that plan a couple years ago. I forget when, but Pants 2 was already out.
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bitter-ability-32190
04/07/2023, 8:16 PMMust've been fun to do a rewrite. Something everyone dreams of 🤩
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