[skavi]

Just yesterday someone was telling me xmake does a lot of what bazel can do (hermetic, deterministic, optionally remote builds) while being easier to use.

I took a look at the docs later and couldn’t find a direct comparison. But there does seem to be a remote build system. And there were a few mentions of sandboxing.

Can anyone provide a head to head comparison?

Does xmake strictly enforce declared dependencies? Do actions run in their own sandboxes?

Can you define a target whose dependency tree is multi language, multi toolchain, multi target platform and which is built across multiple remote execution servers?