My goal is to learn Bazel to understand its value proposition, encouraged/required patterns, requirements¹, limitations and trade-offs.

• run goimports and gofmt as a check and as a task?
  • what's the pattern for targets that change files in the project?
  • bazel run @io_bazel_rules_go//go -- fmt . ?
  • https://bazel.build/reference/be/shell ?
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53163137/how-to-properly-invoke-executable-from-usr-bin-via-starlark
  • https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/bazelbuild/buildtools/+/HEAD/buildifier/README.md
• "how to write rules": crash course
  • https://jayconrod.com/posts/106/writing-bazel-rules--simple-binary-rule
  • https://www.jayconrod.com/posts/111/writing-bazel-rules--platforms-and-toolchains
  • https://www.stevenengelhardt.com/2020/11/19/practical-bazel-wrapping-run-targets-to-provide-additional-context/
• editor support a.k.a can Bazel also provide IDE tooling?
  • https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/wiki/Editor-setup
  • https://jayconrod.com/posts/125/go-editor-support-in-bazel-workspaces
  • https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/wiki/Editor-and-tool-integration
• learning the basic rules
  • e.g. genrule (https://bazel.build/reference/be/general#genrule)
  • https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/blob/main/docs/run_binary_doc.md
• How to manage Bazel itself? (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk vs a Bazel "dev" container)
  • is not a container required for running Bazel RE anyways?
• How (and when) to use Bzlmod?
• Bazel for infrastructure resources: does it fly?
  • https://github.com/tmc/rules_helm and https://github.com/jmileson/rules_terraform LoL

• There are many quality of life improvements for both "tools maintainers" and "feature developers".
• There are many caveats and limitations and corner cases when compared to the native toolchain of each language. Even a seasoned developer on a given language platform will have to learn the Bazel ways.