Not only is it hard to get started with Bazel, it's hard to continue with Bazel even once you do. Unless you are using Google practices (say, vendoring and com

Not only is it hard to get started with Bazel, it's hard to continue with Bazel even once you do. Unless you are using Google practices (say, vendoring and compiling all dependencies), you will certainly end up mired in poorly-maintained third-party tools that will cause no end of fun side-quests. My work became a lot more, ahem, linear, once I moved us off of Bazel.