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2026

  1. A Language That Can't Loop Forever

    Bazel's Starlark forbids unbounded loops and recursion on purpose, and gets analyzability, caching, and parallelism in return. Buck2 quietly allows recursion back — and the split shows which restriction is load-bearing.

    build-systems starlark language-design bazel buck2 dissecting-systems