[eacapeisfutuile]

They do hermetic builds so that it is viable at large scale via granular caching. They were made to make that work at those scales, with pretty much zero consideration for any external package managers or anything like that

[pkkm]

Hm, I did some searching. Bazel's FAQ mentions multi-language support prominently, but only suggests speed and reliability as the initial motivations. I'll edit my post.

[eacapeisfutuile]

Yeah that is a thing for sure, was just commenting on why it was created :)