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The experience of using Bazel inside Google with support is different from the experience of using Bazel outside Google. Some ex-Googler may want to use Bazel
by klodolph 4y ago
The experience of using Bazel inside Google with support is different from the experience of using Bazel outside Google.
Some ex-Googler may want to use Bazel and may have very good reasons for it, but they’re often unprepared to take over the support duties that, at Google, are provided by the developer tool teams.
- dboreham 4y ago"We did X at Google" for me has become an antipattern and a red flag.
- klodolph 4y agoIn general, yes. Bazel has a lot of potential. It can improve developer productivity, with better correctness guarantees and improved build times. Or it can be a big sink of developer time, with people spending endless hours managing Bazel. It has potential to go both ways.
- dilyevsky 4y agoI found when i started using bazel outside of google that my mental model for how its apis really work was really lacking. Once i learned the apis (and the docs are outstanding at helping with that), and with the help of a few examples easily searchable via github, it became quite manageable