BitBake

BitBake is an open source programming language created in 2004.

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BitBake is a make-like build tool with the special focus of distributions and packages for embedded Linux cross compilation, although it is not limited to that. It is inspired by Portage, which is the package management system used by the Gentoo Linux distribution. BitBake existed for some time in the OpenEmbedded project until it was separated out into a standalone, maintained, distribution-independent tool. Read more on Wikipedia...

BitBake website
BitBake Wikipedia page
There are at least 3,285 BitBake repos on GitHub
BitBake first developed in Yocto Project
file extensions for BitBake include bb
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 667 users using BitBake in 1k repos on GitHub
See also: (3 related languages)Python, Linux, Subversion

Example from the web:

require qt5-git.inc
require ${PN}.inc

do_install_append() {
    # for modules which are still using syncqt and call qtPrepareTool(QMAKE_SYNCQT, syncqt)
    # e.g. qt3d, qtwayland
    ln -sf syncqt.pl ${D}${OE_QMAKE_PATH_QT_BINS}/syncqt
}

QT_MODULE_BRANCH = "release"
# v5.2.1 + 168 commits
SRCREV = "08cbbde61778276ccdda73d89fd64d02c623779f"

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Comments	✓		# A comment
Line Comments	✓	#	# A comment
Semantic Indentation	X

BitBake - Programming language

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