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Upvote for Bazel. I think these days I place a lot more value on how well an ecosystem slots into Bazel/friends because monorepos are increasingly more useful and relevant.

So nice to see there are good rules for Zig and that folks are using them.

Also ironically I think starting with Bazel/Buck/whatever your poison of choice is almost always a good move even if people tell you it's overkill. The easiest time to do it as at the beginning, all times after that is too hard and the marginal cost of building with it from the start is minimal.

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carverauto

3 hours ago

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agreed, love Bazel + BuildBuddy

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owyn

6 hours ago

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Downvote for this web site is a horror movie billboard and zig already has a build system which is zig and that's one of it's neat features.

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steeve

3 minutes ago

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zig's build system has limitations that Bazel solves

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fellowmartian

6 hours ago

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People are free to knock themselves out with Bazel if they’re into that kind of masochism, but having it as the ONLY way to build your OSS project is a big no.

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simlevesque

3 hours ago

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Yeah I'm never touching Bazel again. I value my sanity.

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synalx

5 hours ago

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The problem with "the language tooling is already a build system" is that cross-language dependency chains are a thing. The moment you need a Rust or Zig file to be regenerated and recompiled when a JSON schema or .proto file is updated, you're outside what most of those language-specific toolchains can support. This is where Bazel absolutely shines.

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eska

2 hours ago

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If all of your dependencies need to use the same build system as your project then your build system/process is defect anyway. It should be possible to invoke a foreign build system as part of your build.

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steeve

2 minutes ago

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and it would be terrible for hermeticity and reproducibility, nix tries very hard and gets mediocre results

perhaps, just perhaps, why people go through the trouble not because they are idiots but for actual engineering reasons

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Cloudef

4 hours ago

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Zig build system can do all that just fine though

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steeve

1 minute ago

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not without major limitations and drawbacks

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dlahoda

2 hours ago

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Rust build system can do all that just fine though

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phplovesong

32 minutes ago

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Wow! This entire project seem to be a big ball of AI slop.

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steeve

5 minutes ago

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your lack of skills doesn't mean it is (it's not)

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BiteCode_dev

1 hour ago

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Does it have a similar system to Jetstream? If yes, does it address the reliability issues Jetstream has been criticized about lately?

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jbaptiste

1 hour ago

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Absolutely not and will never have.

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PaywallBuster

5 hours ago

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Comparison/benchmark to other alternatives?

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littlestymaar

1 hour ago

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Your daily dose of AI slop…

Happy new year 2026 everyone.

Edit: AI slop projets are more and more frequent on HN these days, but this one went as far as buying a domain name and vibe-coding a landing page, I wonder if it's just the usual resume-padding fake project or if there's something more nefarious behind it.

I really wish HN had an explicit policy against this kind of low-effort/scam-ish content.

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jbaptiste

1 hour ago

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Oh god no. Just having fun with zig and being a little over enthusiast I guess. I'm a big fan of nats, and really wanted to see how far you can push the idea if you do it differently. I was not expecting that tbh but, hpn too!

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steeve

23 minutes ago

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nobody cares about the website being done with AI because the code of the project itself is not AI

you need to touch grass

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girvo

10 minutes ago

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The code of the project absolutely does look like it was done with AI lol, it’s a single commit…

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steeve

6 minutes ago

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a single commit doesn't mean it's vide coded you idiot

1/ AIs are terrible at Zig

2/ I happen to know the author personally