[HN Gopher] Assembling a Game Boy Game with Meson
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       Assembling a Game Boy Game with Meson
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2024-11-08 23:59 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (terinstock.com)
        
       | zahlman wrote:
       | What advantages does this offer over just using a Makefile?
        
         | Hackbraten wrote:
         | From the article:
         | 
         | > Often I'd change a file included by my target, but Make
         | wasn't rebuilding appropriately.
        
         | klodolph wrote:
         | Makefiles are kind of fragile and they barely get the job done.
         | They're error-prone to write--even experienced programmers
         | often end up with dependencies in their makefiles which are
         | incorrectly specified, or you end up using stale intermediate
         | artifacts in your build due to unforeseen error conditions in
         | your recipes. Make itself is missing a lot of critical
         | features, like the ability to rebuild when the configuration
         | changes. Some simple tasks are difficult or arcane in Make,
         | like creating an output directory.
         | 
         | This is why people have been hacking together Make replacements
         | for the past forty years. The underlying problem (build
         | systems) is incredibly intricate and complicated, and as a
         | result, the replacements all make some sort of tradeoffs and we
         | don't have a clear "winner" for make. We just kind of agree
         | that make is bad, but don't agree on what should replace it.
         | 
         | I know that there are also some Make apologists hanging around
         | on HN looking for a fight, so if that's what's going on here, I
         | want to be absolutely clear--I'm not interested in apologia for
         | Make.
        
       | someperson wrote:
       | The ModRetro Chromatic is about to ship and the store has a bunch
       | of newly developed Game Boy games on physical cartridges.
       | 
       | New Game Boy games in 2024/2025!
       | 
       | (I don't know if this blog post is related to the release of the
       | Chromatic)
        
         | terinjokes wrote:
         | Nothing in my post is related to the Chromatic, as I've never
         | heard of it before your comment.
         | 
         | That said, I share in your excitement for new Game Boy games. I
         | occasionally pop over to the RetroBreak YouTube channel to see
         | their reviews of new games. (Though clearly not often enough,
         | as their latest video is about the Chromatic.)
        
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