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The next generation of Bazel builds
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Bazel’s public announcement so this is the perfect moment to reflect on what the next generation of build systems in the Bazel ecosystem may look like.
To understand what Bonanza brings to the table in the context of hugely scalable builds, let’s distill the salient points that Ed highlighted in his slide from his conference presentation (recording coming soon): Repo rules are what Bazel uses to interact with out-of-tree dependencies, and they can do things like download Git repositories, toolchain binaries, or detect what compiler exists in the system. The results of this experiment proved that Blaze could be made to analyze large portions of Google’s build graph in just a fraction of the time, without any sort of analysis caching or significant startup penalties.
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