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by GauntletWizard 514 days ago
I am both strongly of the opinion that this was already done much better in Bazel, and that the go-native version seems clean, clear, and simple and should probably be adopted by pure go shops.

The digraph problem of build tooling is hardly new, though the ability to checksum all of your build tools and executables and mid-outputs to assure consistency is relatively new to feasibility. Bazel is a heavy instrument and making it work as well as it does was a hard problem even for Google. I don't know anyone making the same investment, and doubt it makes the slightest hint of sense for anyone outside the fortune 500.