I have been doing quite a lot of Bazel for $DAYJOB$; and it’s definitely got it’s fair share of warts. I have my own misgivings of it’s migration to bzlmod and it converging to a standard-issue dependency-management style tool. We have yet to transition to MODULE.bazel and our codebase is quite large. As you’d expect, we hit quite a lot of diamond dependency issues & specifically with external repositories in our WORKSPACE file. A surprising implementation detail I recently learned wa...
