On Sunday, 28 January 2024 at 19:12:39 UTC, Johan wrote:
Hey Mike and Martin,
It's very nice that you took the time to have this
conversation and record it! Great to be able to put a face to
an internet name, and hear a little about someones back story :)
I'm happy you touched on Martin's CI work besides his
programming contributions, because CI/packaging is probably not
something many people think about when you say "compiler
development". The (continued) work on CI and automatic release
packaging by Martin has been enormous. It has taken a huge
amount of time and effort - and I'm sure a lot of frustration
went along with it - but the end result really is stellar. As
Martin mentions, it works for forks as well, great stuff.
cheers,
Johan
And it is a work that makes a complete difference. Trying always
to "Build It Yourself" is always a huge pain. There's too much
setup to be done, and as a cross platform developer, I can see
how much work it is going there. At least my latest 200 commits
has been on smooth UX across the platforms for cross compiling.
One can just wonder how much work it goes to that when you're a
step lower on compiler development.
