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Re:Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system by rfoo on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:30PM (#34887711)
I see that you are targetting the Web ecosystem. IMO using Bazel in this case was pretty tough, and may still be. The way Bazel does things may not make sense for 95% JS projects (and 99.9% FOSS projects), so I wonder whether it's better to simply drop the mention to Bazel. Just don't compare to Bazel.

Better “monorepo-ish” (whatever that means in the frontend world) tools are still valuable, but as OP said, it's pretty crowded here.

I don't know if you have talked with people working on C++ or Java projects (I see that these are not among your supported languages), but if you do, you get to see why people are talking about Bazel.

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Re:Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system by mileswjohnson on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:45PM (#34887913)
Yeah, we kind of regret mentioning Bazel in the original post, but we can't change it now.
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