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0 pointsnumbsafari8y ago0 comments

The java dependency is my biggest hangup wrt to incorporating it into my own environment.

So far, I've avoided having to incorporate the JDK into my stack. Having to bring it in just for a build tool, keeping it up-to-date on developer configurations, just feels like a royal pain.

I realize it's never gonna happen, but having bazel rewritten in Go or C++ or anything else that produces a single binary would be awesome.

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pebers8y ago· 1 in thread

We have done more or less that: https://please.build / https://github.com/thought-machine/please

It's written in Go so doesn't need any external dependencies unless you want to target that language (i.e. it only needs a JDK if you're trying to build Java).

Disclaimer: I'm the main author.

numbsafariOP8y ago

Wow. Looks good! Thanks for the heads up.

brabel8y ago

They just need to use Java9 modules so they can use jlink to produce native binaries. No need to use another language.

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