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1. azkalam · 1790019824 · focus · HN ↗

   If you can pay the setup cost, Bazel will get you build times ~10s with a warm cache for even massive projects.

   1. criemen · 1790022309 · focus · HN ↗

      I lead a bazel conversion for a pretty complex piece of software written in 5+ programming languages and shipping native binaries to all 3 major OSes a few years ago, and it took multiple years to get it done.

      For a less complex project (1 programming language, still shipping to all 3 major OSes), with my knowledge and agents I got the bazel conversion done in 2 weeks.

      The setup cost for bazel just went down by a lot, and I don't think the industry as a whole is aware of that yet.

      1. rokob · 1790022674 · focus · HN ↗

         Were any of those using JS/TS? I've seen Bazel perform wonders with many compiled languages, but I'm not impressed with the JS ecosystem.

         1. criemen · 1790024107 · focus · HN ↗

            Nothing substantial, no. I've never personally experienced builds to be so slow to begin investigating bazel as an option for JS/TS.

            Tsgo, oxlint, caching dependencies etc. what linear outlined in their blog post would be more impactful for the average TS project I've worked on.

      2. teaearlgraycold · 1790024202 · focus · HN ↗

         The entire industry, including its outputs that LLMs are trained on, hasn’t reconsidered what’s easy vs. hard or fast vs. slow. LLMs consistently recommend against code changes because they will take “a weekend”. No, Claude. You will do the work and it will take 20 minutes.

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