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Can you please give an example of such an interesting case? I am genuinely curious. And I agree with the general point that monorepos require a great build too

• throwaway894345 5y ago
  An interesting case of what? A monorepo? Issues with Bazel? With Nix?
  • krasin 5y ago
    An interesting case that's hard to support with Bazel. Note: I don't quite like Bazel; but my take is that Bazel supports too much configurations and options: my workflows are always much simpler. Which is why I am curious to hear what do your workflows require.
    • throwaway894345 5y ago
      It’s been a while since I tried it (maybe 2018?), but Python 3 support straight up didn’t work despite the documentation. It also seemed like adding support for your own toolchain required you to write Java plugins in a very confusing, inheritance-for-it’s-own-sake, raptly-2000s-OOP way.
      • krasin 5y ago
        Got it. I can relate: while Python 3 support is probably fixed now, I agree that Bazel tooling for adding toolchains has been always abysmal. Things somewhat get better (https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/toolchains.html https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/toolchains.html) since it's now in Skylark, not in Java, but I still don't like it (aka not productive) Overall, custom toolchains are common (especially, in the embedded world), and a good build system should make that very easy.