Last month I stood in front of my engineering team and told them that the cross-platform build we’d spent weeks perfecting, the one that output our Qt application for Windows, macOS Intel, macOS ARM, Linux x86-64, and Linux ARM64 from a single CI pipeline, was being reduced to Linux x86-64 only.
They looked at me like I’d lost my mind. And honestly, from a pure engineering perspective, I had. We’d done the hard work. The CI was beautiful. The whole team could demo from their own machines. Product could show it on their MacBooks. The CEO could run it on his Windows laptop. It was one of those rare engineering achievements where everything just worked.
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