[jbott]

The bazel installation process has gotten a lot better lately - they now bundle OpenJDK inside the binary and it is only a single download.

[justinsaccount]

Unfortunately that's a non starter for things like debian.. but that's good to know, I'll give it another look.

One thing I really like about bazel is the pkg rules.. I currently use fpm/goreleaser(nfpm) to build rpms for things, and it's nice having a single build tool that can build the app and spit out an rpm.