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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

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bazel itself. One of the complaints I here (not sure how valid they are) is that people's docker images tend to grow a lot, and I'm not proposing bazel yet, as it'll pull additional hundreths of megabytes, plus some more per WORKSPACE.

For Windows, it's mainly perception - if engineer sees that a tool is like 200mb in the depot, he/she be like - that's too much :) "Remember why we pulled boost, and no longer use it - as it's huuuge!" :)

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