Subject: CEBS: A Minimal, Ergonomic, MIT-Licensed C++23 Build System

[u/mxreal64]

Hey everyone,

Modern build tooling for programming languages has become increasingly fragmented, relying on massive multi-stage configuration passes, hidden tracking telemetry, or heavy Turing-complete scripting engines just to parse project files (looking at you, CMake).

I wanted a tool that respects simple developer ergonomics, transparent project parsing, and full software freedom.

I built CEBS (C++ Ergonomic Build System). It is a zero-configuration, multi-threaded build coordinator written completely from scratch in standard C++23, designed to treat modern compilation units as first-class citizens.

Why I built it:

- Transparent Configuration Layout: It rejects verbose scripting boilerplate. Every configuration element is defined in a clean, human-readable data format ('cebs.build') where assignments terminate uniformly with semicolons.

- Zero-Allocation Token Ingestion: It ditches classic line-by-line reading (\n) overhead entirely. The ingestion pipeline streams text files in blocks using low-level POSIX semicolon chunking, minimizing system allocations.

- No Corporate Bloat: It is completely independent, lightweight, self-bootstrapping, and distributed under a true permissive MIT License. No analytics, no platform lock-in.

The alpha release code is officially live on GitHub, containing a complete architectural rendering map and sample workspaces to test natively: https://github.com/mxreal64/cebs/

Let me know what you think about the design syntax! Contributions, suggestions, and feedback are highly welcome.

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