Well, sort of. The way make tracks changes triggers more rebuilds and the build products are much less reusable. There's a good comparison table at the bottom o

Well, sort of. The way make tracks changes triggers more rebuilds and the build products are much less reusable. There's a good comparison table at the bottom of section 2.4 in https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/03/build-systems-final.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0... Bazel's dependency graph tends to be much more detailed than Makefiles, extends all the way to toolchains at the base, and all the way up to build products and test results. It can also be composed together across huge file layouts in ways make doesn't support.