With all the news lately about Bazel, kind of refreshing to talk about this war-horse. Consider: 1. Paul Graham recommends to "do things that don't scale". 2.

With all the news lately about Bazel, kind of refreshing to talk about this war-horse. Consider: 1. Paul Graham recommends to "do things that don't scale". 2. Google designed Blaze when gmake started to scale badly. Chances are, gmake plus some shell scripts and language-dependent build flows is all you really need. Worry about replacing it with something more scalable when you actually have that problem :).