Build Systems à la Carte

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In this talk, Andrey will explore a general framework in which to understand and compare build systems, in a way that is both abstract (omitting incidental detail) and yet precise (implemented as Haskell code). He will use the framework to describe the essence of a variety of different real-life build systems, including Make, Shake, Bazel, Dune and Nix. The framework is open-source and available at github.com/snowleopard/build.

This talk is based on the ICFP 2018 paper with the same title that received the ICFP Distinguished Paper Award, and will also cover more recent work, including so-called selective functors. This talk is suitable for people comfortable with the notions of monads and applicative functors.

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