> For example, for the longest time even pulling deps from Maven Central took extra third party rules (probably fixed now?), but it's reflective of the mentalit

> For example, for the longest time even pulling deps from Maven Central took extra third party rules (probably fixed now?), but it's reflective of the mentality. This seems like a feature to me. Bazel is a generic, extensible build tool; the core project shouldn't need to know the specifics of one dependency system for one language. With recent versions of Bazel and its new module system (bzlmod), it's much easier to pull in third party rules. In this case, just one line: bazel_dep(name = "rules_jvm_external", version = "5.3") https://registry.bazel.build/modules/rules_jvm_external https://registry.bazel.build/modules/rules_jvm_external