Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

Summary: I joined Meta 2.5 years ago to work on build systems. I’m enjoying it. I joined Meta over two years ago when an opportunity ar...

Summary: Shake won't scale to millions of files, this post says what would be required to make it do so. While Shake has compiled proje...

Summary: Forward build systems might work better for small projects. Yesterday's post talked about how Shake is a good medium sized bu...

Summary: As a medium-sized build system, Shake has some good bits and some bad bits. I first developed the Shake build system at Standard ...

Summary: Use OBS, Camo and Audacity . I recently needed to record a presentation which had slides and my face combined, using a Mac. Based ...

Summary: Monadic and early cut-off? Use a sequence of sets. In the Build Systems a la Carte paper we talk about the expressive power of va...

Summary: Some languages ban recursion to ensure programs "terminate". That's technically true, but usually irrelevant. In my ...