Blaze-like systems offer other benifits over makefiles that are, in their own right, amazing. 1. Distributing modules with BUILD files makes everything just wo

Blaze-like systems offer other benifits over makefiles that are, in their own right, amazing. 1. Distributing modules with BUILD files makes everything just work 2. You don't think at the level of commands/files, you think at the abstraction of targets. How targets happen in an implementation detail. 3. `select` for varying builds in a sane and readable way 4. Shared cache 5. Distributed build and test runner 6. Query language 7. All builds occur out of tree 8. A language for describing builds that doesn't feel obtuse And the list keeps going on. A "new make" is not an improvement. It is likely where the world is going to go it just misses out on obvious benefits of other build systems.