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Comment on: Maybe stop using Grunt?
I feel I must be missing something here, but ...The inability to specify config asynchronously turned into a disaster. Our primary need for async config was specifying temp directories for tasks to operate in. We used tmp, which does not have a synchronous api ...... I would like the task system to provide an abstraction for pipelining tasksIs this abstraction not normally just called a program? Where you can do something like:val tmp = makeTempDir()generateFoo(outputDir = tmp)generateBar(inputDir = tmp)etc?How much of this complexity is fundamental and how much is people attempting to work ar