“We introduced this thing called build files… stripped down Python… compile down into the assembly language… eventually became Blaze… Bazel externally”

Peter Mattis, Google build team · The Pragmatic Engineer · Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

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replaced monolithic makefiles with a Python-based “build file” language that generated makefiles, later evolving into Blaze/Bazel

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