Build Complexity

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Declarative Core

Record: lexicon:build-complexity

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which moving work into the build to run at compile time makes the build harder to set up and reason about.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Self-Describing Systems and before Compile-Time Inputs.

Category

• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture

In tension with

• Compile-Time Evaluation
• Compile-Time Evaluation / Build Complexity

Linked from

• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture
• The resolutions