I'm not related to xmake, but it seems a much simpler project than Bazel, which is much more opinionated and contains many more bells and whistles. Bazel may be

I'm not related to xmake, but it seems a much simpler project than Bazel, which is much more opinionated and contains many more bells and whistles. Bazel may be suited for large, structured (read 'enterprise') code bases, but I can see as big a market for something like this as well.