[ranting-moth]

In my experience you need a Bazel expert on the team.

When everything works it's amazing. When it doesn't or additional work is required the hope your local expert is online and willing to sort it out.

[maccard]

This is true for any language ecosystem or build tool, whether it's bazel, maven, unrealbuildtool, Jenkins, cmake, gradle etc.

[oblio]

The thing is, if you hire 20 Java devs, at least one of them will already be an advanced Maven user. Same for Python and poetry/pipenv, Javascript/npm, etc.

Bazel is kind of to the side everywhere.