I'm not hugely excited about Bazel, or really any of the more complex build tools made either directly for, or in the image of, the large corporate monorepo too

I'm not hugely excited about Bazel, or really any of the more complex build tools made either directly for, or in the image of, the large corporate monorepo tooling. Right now we have decades of accumulated make stuff, with some orchestrating shell. It's good in parts, and not in others. What I would ideally like is some bespoke software that produces a big Ninja file to build literally everything. A colleague at Oxide spent at least a few hours poking at a generator that might eventually suit us, and while it's not anywhere near finished I thought it was a promising beginning I'd like us to pursue eventually! https://github.com/oxidecomputer/eos https://github.com/oxidecomputer/eos