Bazel can also pull in Maven dependencies if someone is a masochist enough to need that. >> Bazel has a steep enough learning curve I'd argue for basic tasks

Bazel can also pull in Maven dependencies if someone is a masochist enough to need that. >> Bazel has a steep enough learning curve I'd argue for basic tasks it has far less of a learning curve than e.g. Gradle or, god forbid, something like CMake.