Building with Bazel
Bazel is a build system with a lower profile than stuff like cmake or gradle, and it’s more esoteric by a significant margin. In particular, the ecosystem is going through a migration between different ways to handle dependencies and it seems to be going about as smoothly as the Go 1.11 transition.
2024
Stamping Builds with Bazel
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Versioning is a critical part of delivering software to users. With bazel, you can derive per-build values and inject them anywhere in your build process.
2023
The Joy of Versioning
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Investing in tooling makes adhering to good practices almost easy enough to be joyful.
Beautiful Builds with Bazel
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bzlmod makes bazel extremely appealing and isn’t hard to grasp for anyone already familiar with go modules. My frustration with make for complex builds led me to bazel.