Comment by eacapeisfutuile

Comment by eacapeisfutuile 3 months ago

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They do hermetic builds so that it is viable at large scale via granular caching. They were made to make that work at those scales, with pretty much zero consideration for any external package managers or anything like that

pkkm 3 months ago

Hm, I did some searching. Bazel's FAQ mentions multi-language support prominently, but only suggests speed and reliability as the initial motivations. I'll edit my post.

  • eacapeisfutuile 3 months ago

    Yeah that is a thing for sure, was just commenting on why it was created :)