Using CMake and Managing Dependencies

Re:Using CMake and Managing Dependencies by Zababa on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @07:39PM (#27284228)

I know this might seem weird, but did you consider JavaScript? It takes backwards compatibility very seriously and with QuickJS (https://bellard.org/quickjs/) you could embed it easily if you wish to do so. I do understand that it could be a big culture shock to ask people using CMake to suddenly learn JavaScript and use it, and it has its fair share of warts.

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Re:Using CMake and Managing Dependencies by mathstuf on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:47AM (#27288759)

We hadn't at the time because the only JS engines we could think of were 10x larger than CMake because they were built for browsers and had all kinds of cruft for a DOM that CMake doesn't care about hanging around. Maybe QuickJS would work, but (personally) I don't really think the language would be all that much of an improvement over what we have today (my issues are mostly around the oddities of which JS has quite a number of due to its roots). Then again, some of the ideas that have been tossed around for what could happen are probably interfering and I don't think JS would make those things any easier.

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Re:Using CMake and Managing Dependencies by Zababa on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @07:39AM (#27289170)

That makes a lot of sense, I understand not wanting to deal with V8 or Spidermonkey and the JS-specific warts. Thanks.

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