Re:Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox
by bsder on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:02PM
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> Restrictions in Bazel are critical for having a good performance on a large codebase, and for keeping the codebase maintainable.
Note the vocabulary--"restrictions". Your build system isn't solving a technical problem--it's solving a political one and trying to cloak it in technical terms.
We already have a problem. Your build system is now IN THE WAY if I'm not at scale. Any build system that makes people take notice of it is an a priori failure.
Thanks for posting this though. I've had a nagging irritation with so many of these "scalable" things, and this is the first time it has really coalesced that "scale" is almost always intertwined with "political control".
Note the vocabulary--"restrictions". Your build system isn't solving a technical problem--it's solving a political one and trying to cloak it in technical terms.
We already have a problem. Your build system is now IN THE WAY if I'm not at scale. Any build system that makes people take notice of it is an a priori failure.
Thanks for posting this though. I've had a nagging irritation with so many of these "scalable" things, and this is the first time it has really coalesced that "scale" is almost always intertwined with "political control".