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Stories

• Two hermetic Pythons by Joshua Cannon describes new features in the Pants build system to provide a Python interpreter in a hermetic way.

• Nix Turns 20. What the Hell Is It? by Josh Alletto explains Nix at a high level with the help of several community experts that were interviewed for the article.

• Multiple Xcode Configurations with rules_xcodeproj 1.3 by Brentley Jones describes how rules_xcodeproj manages configurations with transitions and announces support for multiple configurations.

• Multiple external dependency closures in Bazel by Alex Eagle discusses single- versus many-version policies on third-party dependencies for Bazel projects.

• How Gradle Works Part 3 - Build Script by Bo Zhang dives into the details of build script execution.

Projects

• rules_swc version 1.0.0 was released, providing a toolchain for SWC, a fast JavaScript compiler written in Rust.

• Bazel version 6.1.1 was released.

• Nx 15.8 — Rust Hasher, Nx Console for IntelliJ, Deno, Node and Storybook by Juri Strumpflohner announces a new release of Nx.

Events

• EngFlow will organize another Bazel Community Day in San Francisco in May.

• Google is inviting Bazel users to join the Bazel Office Hours to ask questions to Bazel developers and Bazel community experts.

• We are happy to announce a new instance of the Bazel Hour hosted by Tweag. The Bazel Hour is an informal online gathering to come together and chat about Bazel. Some of you may remember the event from early 2021 when it used to occur regularly. After the great experience that was BazelCon 2022 it is high time to bring it back! The theme of the first session will be Nix + Bazel - what it is, why you may want to use it, and how you can use it. We will start with a brief overview of Nix + Bazel and will then open the floor to questions and discussion. The first session will take place Wednesday 5th of April 5.30 pm - 6.15 pm CEST. Sign up here. In the meantime, feel free to view the talk we gave about Nix + Bazel at BazelCon and browse our blog about related content.