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oggy ◴[] No.35472845[source]
Great to see this. I hope it takes off - Bazel is useful but I really like the principled approach behind it (see the Build Systems a la Carte paper), and Neil is scarily good from my experience of working with him so I'd expect that they've come up with something awesome.

One thing I find annoying with all of these general, language-agnostic build systems though is that they break the "citizenship" in the corresponding language. So while you can usually relatively easily build a Rust project that uses crates.io dependencies, or a Python project with PyPi dependencies, it seems hard to make a library built using Bazel/Buck available to non-Bazel/Buck users (i.e., build something available on crates.io or PyPi). Does anyone know of any tools or approaches that can help with that?

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1. klodolph ◴[] No.35476950[source]
The “citizenship” point is really interesting. I’ve found these build systems to be really useful for solving problems in multi-language repos. They make it super easy to create all the build artifacts I want. However, in many ways, they make the source more difficult to consume for people downstream.