Defining your own Build System with Shake
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Shake, like Make, is a tool for writing build systems. However, unlike Make, Shake features monadic dependencies (your dependencies themselves can depend on the results of previous dependencies), polymorphic dependencies (your dependencies don't have to be files) and stable dependencies (if something rebuilds but doesn't change things that depend on it don't have to rebuild). These features make it much easier to define build systems that have accurate dependencies. Additionally, these features let you define your own custom build system, and then implement a Shake-based interpreter for it. It is often said that the easiest way to solve a problem is to define the perfect language for solving the problem, then write an interpreter. In this talk we'll see how to use Shake to apply that advice to build systems.
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Defining your own Build System with Shake
Neil Mitchell
Neil Mitchell is a Haskell programmer who lives in Cambridge with his wife Emily and his son Henry. Neil has a PhD in Computer Science from York University, working on making functional programs shorter, faster and safer. Since then he's worked with F# at Credit Suisse and Haskell/F#/C++ at Standard Chartered and Barclays, taking the lessons of functional programming and applying them in finance.