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by serge2k 3817 days ago
With the fancy distributed bits what's the win I get using Bazel? Maybe it's simpler, but if I already know another system then why switch?
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Simple, repeatable builds, almost no learning curve. I do agree that this is a vastly less potent value proposition than "build your C++ in minutes instead of hours", but it's a start. I think Google will offer the distributed cloud piece for this at some point. They'd be stupid not to.