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Bazel vs Chocolatey: What are the differences?
Developers describe Bazel as "Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone". Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment. On the other hand, Chocolatey is detailed as "*A command line application installer for Windows *". It is based on a developer-centric package manager called NuGet. Unlike manual installations, It adds, updates, and uninstalls programs in the background requiring very little user interaction.
Bazel belongs to "Java Build Tools" category of the tech stack, while Chocolatey can be primarily classified under "Package Managers".
Bazel is an open source tool with 12.6K GitHub stars and 2.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Bazel's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Bazel has a broader approval, being mentioned in 14 company stacks & 57 developers stacks; compared to Chocolatey, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Bazel
- Fast28
- Deterministic incremental builds20
- Correct17
- Multi-language16
- Enforces declared inputs/outputs14
- High-level build language10
- Scalable9
- Multi-platform support5
- Sandboxing5
- Dependency management4
- Windows Support2
- Flexible2
- Android Studio integration1
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Cons of Bazel
- No Windows Support3
- Bad IntelliJ support2
- Poor windows support for some languages1
- Constant breaking changes1
- Learning Curve1
- Lack of Documentation1
Cons of Chocolatey
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