On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 12:39:48 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
If you want to build a really revolutionary *new* build system
you should turn reggae into a client-server-architecture that
listens to file moves/copies/notifications via inotify on
Linux. I'm not sure how the develop/builder interface would
look like then, however. A web-client would be one way.
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I heard that SBT does something similar
(http://www.se-radio.net/2015/07/se-radio-episode-231-joshua-suereth-and-matthew-farwell-on-sbt-and-software-builds/).
From what I understand it is faster due to that you can skip the
overhead of startup.
I also presume it is a big win for user experience.