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		throwaway894345 on Jan 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror Google's internal build system is called Blaze, and (as I understand it) it supports tons of use cases that the Go tool doesn't: * Distributing build jobs across clusters * Targeting any arbitrary platform, architecture combination * Supporting multiple languages and toolchains * Arbitrary build-time script execution (e.g., code generation)

mseepgood on Jan 9, 2023 [–]

Bazel is the open-source variant of Blaze: https://bazel.build/about/faq#what%E2%80%99s_up_with_the_wor...

jen20 on Jan 9, 2023 | [–]

Indeed - Bazel is a complete build system. “go build” is really not, and go modules are typically used for dependency management in Bazel for Go anyway.

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