Comment by soulofmischief

Comment by soulofmischief 4 days ago

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My monorepos have become increasingly multilingual over the years, often due to dependencies, and it's not uncommon to find a make file, cargo.toml, package.json, deno.json, venv + requirements.json, etc. all living in the same root.

Coming from a web background, my usual move is to put all scripts in the package.json, if present. I'd use make for everything, but it's overkill for a lot of stuff and is non-standard in a lot of the domains I work in.

embedding-shape 4 days ago

> My monorepos have become increasingly multilingual over the years, often due to dependencies, and it's not uncommon to find a make file, cargo.toml, package.json, deno.json, venv + requirements.json, etc. all living in the same root.

Same!

Usual move used to put everything in Makefile, but after getting traumatized time and time again from ever-growing complexity, I've started to embrace Just (https://github.com/casey/just) which is basically just a simpler Make. I tend to work across teams a lot, and make/just seems easier for people to spot at a glance, than scripts inside of a package.json that mostly frontend/JavaScript/TypeScript people understand to take a look at.

But in the end I think it matters less specifically what you use, as long as you have one entrypoint that collects everything, could be a Makefile, Justfile or package.json, as long as everything gets under the same thing. Could be a .sh for all I care :)

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tracker1 3 days ago

I've just started to assume I'm in an environment where shebang works and put my scripts to do repeated things under ./run/* ... generally bash if it's simple TS/Deno if it's more complex. Deno has been a joy for shell scripting.

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  • soulofmischief 3 days ago

    Yeah, I don't go out of my way to accommodate Windows developers. I wouldn't go out of my way to hire them, either. Modern Windows is a corporate surveillance platform.

    Deno is great, too. I use Bun where I can but Deno really removes a ton of friction.

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    • tracker1 2 days ago

      Even in windows, happen to be working in a locked down environment without benefit of WSL/Docker even (pushing for it actively)... Even then the git tooling that installs includes bash (and other msys build nix tools), I've also got a bit in my ~/bin directory for shared usage as well, where available for windows.

      So the same stuff still works even there. Even if still using C#, I'd rather not be working on Windows at this point, it's just so entrenched in a lot of work/business/govt environments in the Phoenix area.

      Aside: haven't really used Bun at all, been exceedingly happy with Deno from pretty early on. The only thing I sorely miss is an MS-SQL adapter that works with it. Again, not my favorite by a long shot at this point.

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