I really like Bazel as well. As you said, cross language dependency management in CMake is hilariously annoying. However, I'm at practically a C++ only shop so

I really like Bazel as well. As you said, cross language dependency management in CMake is hilariously annoying. However, I'm at practically a C++ only shop so it rarely comes up. Where I am we were using CMake 2 for our build system for a long time and it got into bad shape. When we made the decision to rewrite the build system (across a few dozen subprojects), we looked at a few - Meson, Bazel, CMake, etc. CMake was hard to argue against because of the recent work (last few years) by Microsoft to support CMake projects directly (File -> Open Folder). We wanted to try to get away from maintaining separate IDE projects for every platform for every project.