Ask HN: Do we need another build system?

We already have serious incompatibility problems with projects using autotools vs CMake vs Meson vs GYP vs Boost.Build vs SCons vs … and now we throw BUSY (https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY/) onto the pile. Why do people continue to invent new build systems? Why should we care that BUSY is statically typed?
Story Published at: August 13, 2022 at 03:46PM