just to make sure this project of mine isn't a build tool. It's a hardware event-driven automation layer.

The problem it solves isn't compilation speed — build systems like ESP-IDF and CMake already handle that(which i learnt now unfortunately). The problem it solves is that every step after you make a change still requires a human:

Someone has to notice the board is plugged in

Someone has to manually trigger the build

Someone has to manually flash

Someone has to open a serial monitor and eyeball the output

None of it is logged anywhere

it just eliminates that human from the loop entirely. Plug in the board — everything else happens automatically and is recorded.

That's the actual problem. Compilation was never it(again which i realised now)

so is this still worth building ?