[mhoad]

I think it’s good advice in general that if you are only trying to build a single language then stick to sensible defaults in that language.

But once you start running into things like multiple languishes and multiple platforms etc it probably makes sense to think about something like Bazel but I agree with you as of right now the learning curve is way too high. I’m very curious to see where they can get it to in a few years, as I mentioned in my other comment, the 6.0 release with bzlmod along with the toolchains and platforms APIs starts to make things quite a bit more grokkable but there is still a long way to go yet I think.