Is it wrong to say that for 95% of the internet that isn’t FAANG, bazel is a solution in search of a problem? I’ve never once seen or used a build system so unnecessarily complex. If you’re a 100k software company it makes a lot of sense to build in complexity but for the majority of the internet, why is something like Bazel any better than existing, simpler build tools?
Bazel is complex, yes, and in my opinion not suitable for small, one language projects.
But I’ve seen many builds, outside of FAANG, that are too slow and that also break frequently after a simple “git pull”. Which other systems promise to improve those, and how do they do it?