[eklitzke]

I'm not going to try to convince you to use Bazel. I think it's great, but ultimately choosing one build system or another is a big decision that involves weighing a lot of different factors, including what your coworkers are amenable to and have experience with. However I don't think Bazel is that difficult to get started with.

The Bazel docs are admittedly a bit challenging, but the easiest way to learn things when you're first getting started is to just look at other projects using Bazel and see how they do things.

Using multiple git repositories is easy, you just use the git_repository() rule which has been in Bazel since pretty much forever. Nowadays you can also use bzlmod (introduced in bazel 5.x) which is a slightly different approach to this problem. There are a bunch of rules in https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry which you can look at to see how to write your own bzlmod registries.

[nisa]

bzlmod looks amazing! Thank you! I don't need to be convinced but I need to sell it to my team and I must be able to solve our problems in it - imho getting it working solves 90% of annoying problems in this whole ci/cd/container mess and that's why I'd like to push for it.

[hobofan]

The BCR also has a web UI at https://registry.bazel.build