[kylewlacy]

ooh, porkg looks pretty interesting, will definitely keep an eye on the project!

Definitely agreed about the lockfile ideas! I went with a fairly similar design, although I haven't really escaped the "rebuild the world" situation yet and I've rebuilt a _lot_ of copies of gcc from source by now! (that's also partially because I set up the packages repo as a workspace[1], which I felt was easier to iterate on in the early days... I might eventually split each package into their own projects or separate repos so they can keep lockfiles independent of each other)

and yeah, I definitely felt the temptation to write my own DSL but I stayed strong! I just knew that it'd be a huge uphill battle, especially because I wanted to provide good editor support (IMO implementing a language is (relatively) easy, but implementing a language with good error messages and LSP support is crazy hard)

[^1]: https://brioche.dev/docs/core-concepts/workspaces/