Nov 7, 2026, 8:21 PM@glyph @whitequark Even more that pyproject.toml itself, having PEP 517/8 define what cross-tooling builds should look like has been an absolute godsend. It's nothing short of miraculous to me that `pdm build` can build pure Python, Python+Rust, Python+C++, and Python+Zig/WASM packages using the exact same invocation.
@xgranade @whitequark yeah the number of times that a project with native dependencies worked so well on the first try that I didn't _notice_ it had native deps until months or even years later is truly staggering. if you had a native dep in 2011, it wasn't that I'd notice; my entire week was ruined
Nov 7, 2026, 8:25 PM@glyph @whitequark I'm working with enough obsolete packages that I still always notice native deps, and have developed a healthy fear of any packages that use dynamic linkage instead of static linkage, but that's absolutely my weird vantage point in trying to wrangle a cursed codebase that I didn't initially create.