Bazel vs Vim

Overview

Vim

Stacks27.9K

Followers22.8K

Votes2.4K

Bazel

Stacks313

Followers579

Votes133

Bazel vs Vim: What are the differences?

Build System: Bazel is a build system designed by Google to support a wide range of programming languages and environments, enabling large-scale, distributed builds. On the other hand, Vim is a highly efficient text editor used for code editing and manipulation, not specifically a build system like Bazel.
Purpose: Bazel focuses on the building and testing of software applications within a distributed environment, emphasizing performance and scalability. In contrast, Vim is primarily used for text editing tasks, offering various advanced features and customization options to enhance code editing workflows.
Language Support: Bazel provides support for multiple programming languages, allowing developers to build projects in different languages using a single build tool. Whereas Vim does not offer built-in language support for building applications; its primary function is editing and managing text files.
User Interface: Bazel is primarily a command-line tool with configuration files for specifying build rules and dependencies. Vim, on the other hand, comes with a graphical user interface but can also be used from the command line, offering a versatile editing environment for developers.
Collaboration: Bazel provides features for streamlining collaboration among developers, supporting reproducible and incremental builds across distributed teams. Vim, although it supports collaboration through various plugins and extensions, is not specifically designed for team-based build processes like Bazel.
Development Ecosystem: Bazel integrates seamlessly with other tools and platforms, fostering an ecosystem of tools and libraries that enhance the build process. In contrast, Vim has a robust plugin ecosystem that extends its functionality for various tasks but is more focused on text editing rather than building software projects.

In Summary, Bazel and Vim differ significantly in their primary focus, with Bazel being a comprehensive build system for software development and Vim serving as a versatile text editor with advanced editing capabilities.

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Detailed Comparison

Vim	Bazel
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.	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.
Vertically Split Windows;Vimdiff;Folding;Plugins;Flexible Indenting;Unicode	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;Reproducibility: In BUILD files, each library, test, and binary must specify its direct dependencies completely. Bazel uses this dependency information to know what must be rebuilt when you make changes to a source file, and which tasks can run in parallel. This means that all builds are incremental and will always produce the same result;Scalable: Bazel can handle large builds
Statistics
Stacks 27.9K	Stacks 313
Followers 22.8K	Followers 579
Votes 2.4K	Votes 133
Pros & Cons
Pros 347 Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing) 328 Fast 312 Highly configurable 297 Less mouse dependence 247 Lightweight Cons 8 Ugly UI 5 Hard to learn	Pros 28 Fast 20 Deterministic incremental builds 17 Correct 16 Multi-language 14 Enforces declared inputs/outputs Cons 3 No Windows Support 2 Bad IntelliJ support 1 Learning Curve 1 Poor windows support for some languages 1 Constant breaking changes
Integrations
No integrations available	Java Objective-C C++

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Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Visual Studio Code

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Apache Maven

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Emacs

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Gradle

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Brackets

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Neovim

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VSCodium

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Bazel vs Vim: What are the differences?

Build System: Bazel is a build system designed by Google to support a wide range of programming languages and environments, enabling large-scale, distributed builds. On the other hand, Vim is a highly efficient text editor used for code editing and manipulation, not specifically a build system like Bazel.
Purpose: Bazel focuses on the building and testing of software applications within a distributed environment, emphasizing performance and scalability. In contrast, Vim is primarily used for text editing tasks, offering various advanced features and customization options to enhance code editing workflows.
Language Support: Bazel provides support for multiple programming languages, allowing developers to build projects in different languages using a single build tool. Whereas Vim does not offer built-in language support for building applications; its primary function is editing and managing text files.
User Interface: Bazel is primarily a command-line tool with configuration files for specifying build rules and dependencies. Vim, on the other hand, comes with a graphical user interface but can also be used from the command line, offering a versatile editing environment for developers.
Collaboration: Bazel provides features for streamlining collaboration among developers, supporting reproducible and incremental builds across distributed teams. Vim, although it supports collaboration through various plugins and extensions, is not specifically designed for team-based build processes like Bazel.
Development Ecosystem: Bazel integrates seamlessly with other tools and platforms, fostering an ecosystem of tools and libraries that enhance the build process. In contrast, Vim has a robust plugin ecosystem that extends its functionality for various tasks but is more focused on text editing rather than building software projects.

Bazel vs Vim

Overview