To the extent there’s a real issue with ‘MODULE.bazel’ (aka bzlmod), it’s that Bazel has such a rich ecosystem even on the old, janky ‘WORKSPACE’-style that the

To the extent there’s a real issue with ‘MODULE.bazel’ (aka bzlmod), it’s that Bazel has such a rich ecosystem even on the old, janky ‘WORKSPACE’-style that the slick new thing that always works is impossible to migrate in one go. The Bazel team flags things off by default for years, and then things on for years, because they’re engineers and try hard not to break people’s shit. Are feature flags and migration paths and interim solutions more work? Yeah, no doubt. But for all their recent fumbles in AI and steadily downward trajectory on search and all the things that happens when a big company is run by people who were never all that technical? Google still has a hard core of the baddest hackers you don’t want to mess with.