[owyn]

Downvote for this web site is a horror movie billboard and zig already has a build system which is zig and that's one of it's neat features.

[fellowmartian]

People are free to knock themselves out with Bazel if they’re into that kind of masochism, but having it as the ONLY way to build your OSS project is a big no.

[simlevesque]

Yeah I'm never touching Bazel again. I value my sanity.

[steeve]

well, bazel is by far the most reliable one so I'm not sure why you're complaining

[synalx]

The problem with "the language tooling is already a build system" is that cross-language dependency chains are a thing. The moment you need a Rust or Zig file to be regenerated and recompiled when a JSON schema or .proto file is updated, you're outside what most of those language-specific toolchains can support. This is where Bazel absolutely shines.

[Cloudef]

Zig build system can do all that just fine though

[eska]

If all of your dependencies need to use the same build system as your project then your build system/process is defect anyway. It should be possible to invoke a foreign build system as part of your build.

[dlahoda]

Rust build system can do all that just fine though