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Build systems à la carte: Theory and practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2020

ANDREY MOKHOVOpen the ORCID record for ANDREY MOKHOV[Opens in a new window],
NEIL MITCHELL and
SIMON PEYTON JONES
ANDREY MOKHOV
Affiliation:
School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Jane Street, London, UK, (e-mail: andrey.mokhov@ncl.ac.uk)
NEIL MITCHELL
Affiliation:
Facebook, London, UK, (e-mail: ndmitchell@gmail.com)
SIMON PEYTON JONES
Affiliation:
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, (e-mail: simonpj@microsoft.com)
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Build systems are awesome, terrifying – and unloved. They are used by every developer around the world, but are rarely the object of study. In this paper, we offer a systematic, and executable, framework for developing and comparing build systems, viewing them as related points in a landscape rather than as isolated phenomena. By teasing apart existing build systems, we can recombine their components, allowing us to prototype new build systems with desired properties.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 30 , 2020, e11
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