Ask HN: What feedback do you have for my build tool

cdaringe.github.io

2 points·cdaringe··3 comments

A couple of years ago I made a build tool. I still use it periodically, particularly when I'd otherwise reach for make. I presume I'm its sole user, and will happily continue to be so. Nonetheless, I suspect a sliver of others in the community may have interest.

Give me critique. Unabashed criticism welcomed.

For one thing, it has no license that would enable other people to use it, especially in corporate environments that are sensitive to legal liability

I don't have experience with Deno specifically, but anytime I see node or typescript things I associate that with having an unlimited number of node_modules directories littering my filesystem consuming unlimited amounts of disk space each. How does rad behave in that regard?

Also, languages with implied imports drive me batshit: https://github.com/cdaringe/rad/blob/v8.0.0/src/mod.ts#L20

Thx for the feedback!

Will specify a license asap.

Very small amount of 3p deps are used. A few modules from @std and the well known date-fns lib. deno info src/bin.ts shows a generally short, shallow tree.

Wrt to implied imports and the ref’d line, it’s not really implied as much as default filename. Nearly the same but i think perhaps a subtle enough difference? -r can be used for an explicit entrypoint, thus opting out of the default.

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