[bobdobbs666]

Lack of docs plus lack of user base is also a giant failing of bazel. It’s almost always impossible to figure out something I could make happen 6 ways with most other build systems make work in bazel. And there’s little community so now instead of getting work done I am debugging bazel source.

Also building distributable packages with bazel never seemed to work well due to the constant aliasing of so files. Things that would work in the direct bazel build would fail in packages and vice versa so now we had even more pain.

Trying to suck up just header files and multiple so files was always arcane bullshit as well.

We did work with git and other such functionality, but if you had to build a package from another build system to bring into bazel there were always annoying pain points.

Also bazel managed to bring in implicit dependencies in our system so that clearly isn’t something bazel magically handles but was rather a product of your expertise.

After reading build systems ala carte I am just more convinced bazel is not the build system that I would really ever need. I’m not sure that build system exists yet to be honest :). But in the work I do other systems solve my problems better.