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Re:Bazel 1.0 by ksec on Friday October 18, 2019 @12:00AM (#21288547)
>I only wish Bazel had been written in a language that produced native binaries like C++ or Go instead of Java.

Java can be compiled into native binaries using GraalVM. Not to mention you dont actually have to install Java as it comes in bundled.

Re:Bazel 1.0 by meisterT on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:23AM (#21289319)
native-image performance without PGO might be worse than with JIT, at least in some experiments that I did.

See also https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/979