Pants with Eric Arellano and Stu Hood

Allen Wyma talks with Eric Arellano (linkedin.com/in/arellanoeric) (they/them) and Stu Hood (twitter.com/stuhood) (he/him), maintainers of Pants (pantsbuild.org), 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: twitter.com/AerocityMusic

Audio Editing: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset (twitter.com/jonhoo)

Show Notes: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosts: Allen Wyma (twitter.com/allenwyma)