Ask HN: Programming Without a Build System?
by mikewarot on Hacker News.
I’m an old MS-DOS / Windows programmer used to Turbo Pascal, Delphi, etc. The old days were simple, in that you compiled code, and gave it to your customers. Everything just works. Now every time I try to learn something new… there’s always a build system in the way, with MSTOICAL it was Autoconf, with switching to Linux, I couldn’t get WikidPad to build on Linux, trying to build a lifeboat for Twitter, Python works, but then modules require builds that break. Is it possible to have a system without Make or the like? Alternatively, any good resources for the above?