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bazelbuild
bazel
Java2015–2026
bazelbuild / bazel

bazel

a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

77Distinct people
93Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
26.1KGitHub stars
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a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:02:26 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year93 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-03-24 16:07:21 UTC to 2026-01-21 00:19:31 UTC.

0510152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 4 submissions, 8 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 1 submissions, 12 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 0 submissions, 12 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 1 submissions, 11 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1248
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13112
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12012
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12111
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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bazel is not used on android because it came later. However, lots of startups are using it to build both their android+ios apps in production in CI/CD. here's the android toolchain - https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/tutorial/android-ap... that's a bit of fud that it is restricted to googleplex, not sure why you would say that. https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/wiki/Bazel-Users - bazel is being used at tons of places including Dropbox, Asana, Etsy, Huawei, Pinterest, Uber, etc. for multiple languages - Java, Rust, Golang, C++, etc. Again - I'm not sure why you are mentioning about a "new JIT compiler". Graal on Java 9 works - if you check a ton of documentation, everyone is talking about using Graal on Java 9 (self-built). E.g. http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/jokerconf17/ I'm talking about Oracle + Graal project not putting ou
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t Java 9 based releases because of a co-ordination effort.
In Graal: How to use the new JVM JIT compiler in real life [video]
Do you mean for Bazel itself or for building apps with bazel? Bazel is still a bit away from having Java 9 support [1] and it still requires some system dependencies (for the other languages and cross system support). I wish more tools would go the "static binary" path that make it easy to build and use wrappers without having to figure out system configuration every single time. [1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/3410
In Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps

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