About "Deterministic Builds"

Ever considered writing the compiler in a deterministic way/language?

Then you get the same result every time.

But noo.. that would be actually solve the problem properly. Instead let's put hundreds of hours of effort into carrying around an entire OS in some kind of 'default state' so that all the randomness of your buildsystem in neutralized.

This is programming (aka toiletscrubber retard bricklayer) logic.

How much worse can the software industry get?

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Ever considered writing the compiler in a deterministic way/language?

A custom ld script is enough, the ELF/PE image layout can be (almost) perfectly defined there.

The disadvantage is that one needs to recompile every dependency down to libgcc/mingw, and pull exact same version number (ie 1:1 source code match) of everything. Which is why VM is the lazy/simpler option in the end.