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   Cayetano Santos (csantosb@sigmoid.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 17:08:07 JST Cayetano Santos

   • Ludovic Courtès
   • Peter Brett
   • equinox
   • Zack Weinberg
   • Sergio Pastor Pérez

   @zwol @krans @equinox @shepherd @civodul A build system in Guile

   https://codeberg.org/lapislazuli/blue

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     Sergio Pastor Pérez (shepherd@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 17:08:02 JST Sergio Pastor Pérez

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     • Ludovic Courtès
     • Peter Brett
     • equinox
     • Zack Weinberg

     You are missing out! Being a user of software written in the same language that you use for extending it is such a treat!

     BLUE has many features besides being embeddable. Being a good target for LLM ingestion may not be one of those, and that's fine. The project is a love letter to the community.

     We may not have a sales pitch for big corp LLM, but that's okay.

     BLUE is developed for your freedom and ours.

     @equinox @csantosb @zwol @krans @civodul

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     Sergio Pastor Pérez (shepherd@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 17:08:04 JST Sergio Pastor Pérez

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     • Ludovic Courtès
     • Peter Brett
     • equinox
     • Zack Weinberg

     @equinox @csantosb @zwol @krans @civodul Because it's a 0 dependency build system. It only requires the Guile runtime, so the threading library is Fibers[1] ported to pure scheme. The advantage of this is that it's embeddable and it can bootstrap itself, meaning that the build system of BLUE is BLUE. You can check out the blueprint[2] of the project to see how it's really building itself.

     [1] https://codeberg.org/guile/fibers
     [2] https://codeberg.org/lapislazuli/blue/src/branch/main/blueprint.scm

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     equinox (equinox@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 17:08:04 JST equinox

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     • Ludovic Courtès
     • Peter Brett
     • Zack Weinberg
     • Sergio Pastor Pérez

     @shepherd @csantosb @zwol @krans @civodul I can't tell if this is a joke or not…

     (I will absolutely not even consider using a build system written in Scheme/Guile. This shit needs to be understandable and maintainable by stupid people. Worse: these days it needs to be maintainable by stupid people with shitty LLMs.)

     Janneke repeated this.
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     equinox (equinox@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 17:08:06 JST equinox

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     • Ludovic Courtès
     • Peter Brett
     • Zack Weinberg
     • Sergio Pastor Pérez

     @csantosb @zwol @krans @shepherd @civodul why does it say "Linux with epoll"… how the f does a build system (written in a high level language, no less) get a hard dependency on *that* 😳