I think the issue with Bazel may be that it works extremely well at Google where for 80% of the code at the company, building is just a completely solved problem, with amazing tooling integration, and it's glorious.
Whereas in the open source there is much more manual setup to get it working smoothly. And the manual setup is much easier in the tool your ecosystem already knows.
So it may not actually be a wonderful system in and of itself (outside of the Google monorepo). My comment was mainly about the principle rather than an endorsement to adopt Bazel!
Whereas in the open source there is much more manual setup to get it working smoothly. And the manual setup is much easier in the tool your ecosystem already knows.
So it may not actually be a wonderful system in and of itself (outside of the Google monorepo). My comment was mainly about the principle rather than an endorsement to adopt Bazel!