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No. I work on Blaze/Bazel. The vast majority of the code is shared between Blaze and Bazel. Examples of Bazel-specific code include support for Windows and supp
by laurentlb 7y ago
No. I work on Blaze/Bazel. The vast majority of the code is shared between Blaze and Bazel. Examples of Bazel-specific code include support for Windows and support for external deps (needed for multirepos and interaction with package managers).
The core is exactly the same.
- willtim 7y agoMy employer encountered lots of basic bugs, like file handle exhaustion, which together with the amount of recent activity in GitHub, suggested to me that there is a lot of new code in Bazel. If it's essentially the same as Blaze as you say, then why the new name?
- hanwenn 7y agoI was there when the name was selected. It turns out "blaze" suggests speed, which is why it was a popular name for other software, and some of it was registered as trademark.