Pants with Eric Arellano and Stu Hood

Allen Wyma talks with Eric Arellano (they/them) and Stu Hood (he/him), maintainers of Pants, a build system made for monorepos.

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Timestamps

[@00:10] - Pants’ Introduction
[@01:26] - Different languages used in building Pants
[@03:25] - Pants versions
[@06:00] - Pants’ history and why it started
[@11:09] - What is a Monorepo and why you would want to use it
[@13:48] - Polyrepo vs Monorepo
[@19:04] - What makes Pants unique
[@21:03] - Why Pants needed to rewrite some parts from Python to Rust and other languages
[@22:31] - Why Pants chose Rust
[@25:46] - Pants 1 vs Pants 2
[@27:12] - Challenges integrating Python and Rust
[@29:03] - How Eric and Stu figured out which parts should be written in Python and which should be in Rust
[@32:27] - Future plans and what’s next for Pants?
[@36:15] - Shoutouts and parting thoughts

Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma