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moochmoochyesterday at 10:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

so use Bazel or buck2 if you need an iteration on make's handling of changed files. Bazel is much more serious of a project than buildkit. I'm not saying make is more functional that buildkit (it might be to some), I'm saying its better written software than buildkit. two separate things


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kccqzytoday at 12:15 AM

Oh I love Bazel. The problem is that it’s harder to adopt for teams used to just using make. For a particular project at work, I argued unsuccessfully for switching from plain make to bazel, and it ended up switching to cmake.

literalAardvarkyesterday at 10:40 PM

Bazel just seems so... Academic. I can't make heads or tails of it.

Compared to a Dockerfile it's just too hard to follow