I’ve heard it from people new to Bazel but also from people very familiar with the Bazel ecosystem: BUILD files must go away. And they must go away because they are redundant: they just repeat the dependency information that’s already encoded in the in-code import/use statements. Hearing this from newcomers to Bazel isn’t surprising: after all, most newcomers are used to build tools that provide zero facilities to express dependencies across the sources of your own project. Hearing it f...
