kind of fucked part is that microcontroller coding is still stuck in the 90s or something. i think some people have started using docker builds though.

i'd be curious to see how well bazel clones work here. cause one thing they like doing is pinning tooling to set versions.

although i kind of dislike bazel builds in one way that they do a LOT of copying. please.build has to copy the whole workspace for each artifact, and they use this to enforce hermetic builds, so builds start to bog down if you do things like include the compiler in the workspace, though it does try to use reflinks in the sandbox to help.

i wonder if you could do something with FUSE to do the same job (i think faceboogle actually do exactly this, using virtual filesystems internally, but the public versions don't because they won't publish that code)