[gravypod]

Thanks for all the hard work! I'm very excited to see where this goes.

Have you considered sponsoring, or accepting donations, to work on IDE integration? That's pretty much the only reason I migrated my current employers codebase over to Bazel instead of Please.

[tatskaari]

Hey! Glad you liked it :D Please is owned by Thought Machine. They’ve recently (8 months) brought me on the project full time. We’re planning on putting together a dedicated IDE team together but no promises.

[sdenton4]

As a big fan of Bazel (ok, Blaze), I'm curious what's different than what Blaze offers

[gravypod]

Bazel has a lot of things "missing" that had to be cut out from the OSS release. Things like grpc rule sets are extremely fragmented right now. It's a bit of A saying "the B team should maintain the rules" and B saying "the A team should maintain the rules". As such almost every single language has inconsistent support for everything: code coverage, protobuf, grpc, external dependency management, IDE integration. Also because there's no stubby, sponge, or other cool internal tools a lot of the benefits from blaze as a system are not externalized.

Also, the docker support in Bazel is pretty "different". It's not bad, but it's not immediately obvious to newcomers how this is meant to work.

It's getting better every day though.