Regarding Starlark, there's a discussion on this topic: https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/issues/97 https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/issues/97 (note

Regarding Starlark, there's a discussion on this topic: https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/issues/97 https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/issues/97 (note that Neil, the author of the blog post, commented there too) My experience working on build systems and Bazel is that recursion is rarely useful (and most of the use-cases are for things that should be discouraged). Interestingly, Meson advertizes "non-Turing complete DSL" a feature on their front-page.