Oct 14, 2026, 11:35 PM@linear no idea what that is but everything on the wikipedia article raises red flags and the corposhit klaxon is blaring
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linear cannonlinear@nya.socialOct 14, 2026, 11:35 PM@wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe yeah don't- Oct 14, 2026, 11:39 PM@linear "one of the first openly available cloud build systems"
"History: In 2006, Google started the development of a build tool called Blaze."
"Bazel is extensible with the Starlark programming language. Starlark is an embedded language whose syntax is a subset of the Python syntax"
"Bazel uses a sandbox for compilation steps. "
"Bazel is commonly used by companies." - linear cannonlinear@nya.socialOct 14, 2026, 11:40 PM@wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe everything it claims to do it does in the worst most convoluted way possible and then fails to actually achieve the ends to which it was supposed to be the means (e.g. reliably cross-compiling something reproducibly)
- Oct 14, 2026, 11:43 PM@linear i think reliably cross compiling reproducibly is one of those buzzword laden claims that must always be followed by 85 asterisks assuming a certain untrue set of target systems