People are discussing things that are tedious work. I think the conversion to Bazel from a makefile is much more tedious and error prone than the reverse, in part because of Bazel sandboxing although that shouldn’t make much of a difference for a well-defined collection of Makefiles of a C library.

The reverse should be much easier, which was the point of the post. Pointing it out as a capability (translation of build systems) that is handled well, is, well, informative. The future isn’t evenly distributed and people aren’t always aware of capabilities, even on HN