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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The disadvantage is that one needs to recompile every dependency

Surely this is only the case if you are linking dependencies statically?

I imagine source changes in header files would be a larger problem. "Same source, same output" is not the same as "same ABI, same output" where the compiler is concerned.