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Re:Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system by andrew_ on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:02PM (#34887254)
Bazel as a taskrunner/build system is to most monorepos as a Pile Driver [1] is to a floorboard nail. It will do everything but it's massive overkill. We are agreed that Nx doesn't measure up, but I wouldn't compare it to Bazel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pile_driver

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Re:Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system by rfoo on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:43PM (#34887884)
Fair point. I treated the product as a build system and it just doesn't look right. However it makes perfect sense if it advertised itself as a "task runner".
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Re:Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system by malkia on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @01:06AM (#34892211)
When you start having 100 applications (a typical game may have that amount), even if only 10 of them are thorouhgly tested, you end up needing that pile driver, or you end up compiling all 100 of these on every presubmit. Just sayin.
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