Comment by Analemma_
11 hours ago
Maybe, but I feel like an article I’ve read many, many times is “we hired one or more Xooglers for our startup and this turned out to be a catastrophe because they insisted on trying to bring blaze/bazel with them and it nearly destroyed the company.” It’s always bazel specifically in these articles, never any of the other internal Google stuff like Spanner.
Wait please post the articles where they brought Spanner over; those sound like fun reads
I mean, bazel is great and I would use it when building a codebase from scratch, but the win from switching from one build system to another is, at best, some efficiency, and you need a lot of aggregate efficiency gains to pay for effort.