I’m very interested in the cool features that Pants has, like built in support for linting and fixing, and integration with version control. I need C++ support before I’m ready to jump in with both feet, but I am following the progress on this front and look forward to seeing it all land

Ahh, then you are familiar with @wide-midnight-78598's work on that front, I take it? 🙂

Yes, and I promise I will finally add the unit tests to this one day so we can finally land first-party compilation support. If it's the last thing I do!!!! https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/16424

Yup, I’m watching that PR 🙂 Can’t wait!

....the excitement builds...