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The standard suite of open sourced Bazel rules are powerful enough for 99% of use cases. I have seen people argue this isn’t true, or that a rules package is fu
by fsociety 4y ago
The standard suite of open sourced Bazel rules are powerful enough for 99% of use cases. I have seen people argue this isn’t true, or that a rules package is fundamentally broken, but then learn that they are holding it wrong. And that holding it wrong reveals some glaring issues with how they setup their build system.
It’s not solely the user’s responsibility to hold it right. But Bazel is and has been developed in the “open source context” for long enough now that your argument doesn’t hold up imo.
- di4na 4y agoIf people hold it wrong so much, the tool is not adapted to the users. By definition
- lern_too_spel 4y agoThese people hold other build tools wrong too. The difference is those other build tools often have no way of being held correctly. That Bazel is possible to use correctly at all explains why it was copied at least twice (Buck and Pants) before it was open sourced.
- di4na 4y agoAnd yet noone use neither of them in this world. Maybe we should realise that if none of them can be hold right when people use them, it is because they are not adapted to the use.