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| title: Bazel Builder Blasts Beyond Beta Barrier |
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| _Reposted from [Google's Open Source blog](http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/09/building-build-system-bazel-reaches-beta.html)._ |
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| We're excited to announce the Beta release of [Bazel](http://bazel.build), an [open |
| source](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel) build system designed to support a |
| wide variety of different programming languages and platforms. |
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| There are lots of other build systems out there -- Maven, Gradle, Ant, Make, and |
| CMake just to name a few. So what's special about Bazel? Bazel is what we use to |
| build the large majority of software within Google. As such, it has been |
| designed to handle build problems specific to Google's development environment, |
| including a massive, shared code repository in which all software is built from |
| source, a heavy emphasis on automated testing and release processes, and |
| language and platform diversity. Bazel isn't right for every use case, but we |
| believe that we're not the only ones facing these kinds of problems and we want |
| to contribute what we've learned so far to the larger developer community. |
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| Our beta release provides: |
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| * Binary releases for |
| [Linux and OS X](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases). |
| * Support for building and testing C++, Java, Python, Rust, |
| [and more](http://bazel.build/docs/be/overview.html). |
| * Support for building Docker images, Android apps, and iOS apps. |
| * Support for using libraries from |
| [Maven, GitHub, and more](http://bazel.build/docs/external.html). |
| * [A robust API](http://bazel.build/docs/skylark/index.html) for adding your own |
| build rules. |
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| Check out the [tutorial app](http://bazel.build/docs/tutorial/index.html) to see a |
| working example using several languages. |
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| We still have a long way to go. Looking ahead towards our 1.0.0 release, we |
| plan to provide Windows support, distributed caching, and Go support among other |
| features. See our [roadmap](http://bazel.build/roadmap.html) for more details |
| and follow our [blog](http://bazel.build/blog) or |
| [Twitter](https://twitter.com/bazelbuild) account for regular updates. Feel |
| free to contact us with questions or feedback on the |
| [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bazel-discuss) or IRC |
| (#bazel on freenode). |
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| _By Jeff Cox, Bazel team_ |
