Babel vs Bazel: What are the differences?
Developers describe Babel as "Use next generation JavaScript, today". Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support. On the other hand, Bazel is detailed 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.
Babel and Bazel are primarily classified as "JavaScript Compilers" and "Java Build" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Babel are:
- Array comprehensions
- Arrow functions
- Async functions
On the other hand, Bazel provides the following key features:
- Multi-language support: Bazel supports Java, Objective-C and C++ out of the box, and can be extended to support arbitrary programming languages.
- High-level build language: Projects are described in the BUILD language, a concise text format that describes a project as sets of small interconnected libraries, binaries and tests. By contrast, with tools like Make you have to describe individual files and compiler invocations.
- Multi-platform support: The same tool and the same BUILD files can be used to build software for different architectures, and even different platforms. At Google, we use Bazel to build both server applications running on systems in our data centers and client apps running on mobile phones.
"Modern Javascript works with all browsers" is the top reason why over 160 developers like Babel, while over 18 developers mention "Fast" as the leading cause for choosing Bazel.
Babel and Bazel are both open source tools. Babel with 33.8K GitHub stars and 3.6K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Bazel with 12.4K GitHub stars and 2.03K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Babel has a broader approval, being mentioned in 902 company stacks & 687 developers stacks; compared to Bazel, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
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