Re:Please – A cross-language build system
by kortex on Saturday November 28, 2020 @04:04PM
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I've read Bazel without the rest of Google tooling (giant monorepo of everything, distributed build farms, etc) the experience is nowhere near the same.
Re:Please – A cross-language build system
by laurentlb on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:27AM
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What do you mean with "insistence on being a separate language"? Many build tools have their own DSL.
Starlark is _almost_, but not quite_ Python, and Python 2 at that. You could do everything Starlark does in actual Python and get stuff like static type checking for free.
I think the term DSL is overloaded here? Consider all the Lisp and Ruby stuff that's definitely DSL but doesn't need most of a language implementation.
I'm not suggesting Bazel is perfect: I think e.g. Starlark's insistence on being a separate language does more harm than good. (FWIW I also think the JVM objection is a little silly.) But I am saying preferring the Google tooling would ostensibly mean you like Bazel a lot already :)