# Build Complexity

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

Record: `lexicon:build-complexity`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Declarative Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/declarative-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-build-complexity

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Self-Describing Systems](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/self-describing-systems.md) and before [Compile-Time Inputs](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/compile-time-inputs.md).

## Category

- [Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/metaprogramming-language-oriented-architecture.md)

## In tension with

- [Compile-Time Evaluation](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/compile-time-evaluation.md)
- [Compile-Time Evaluation / Build Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/build-complexity-compile-time-evaluation.md)

## Linked from

- [Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-metaprogramming-language-oriented-architecture.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)