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		russdill on May 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A look at Crystal, a programming language for huma... Build support in general isn't great. The way external objects are linked is a bit hinky, cross compilation support is poor, and running multiple instances of the compiler at the same time on the same machine isn't supported.

sethrin on May 5, 2023 [–]

Not sure what you mean by that last bit. That seems like something handled by asdf or some other package management tool.

russdill on May 6, 2023 | [–]

I mean if you do, one instance will delete intermediate build objects of another instance, etc.

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