>For a build tool, which is invoked many times to do relatively small amounts of work (compared to long-running server-side applications), it just doesn't make

>For a build tool, which is invoked many times to do relatively small amounts of work (compared to long-running server-side applications), it just doesn't make sense. Bazel makes use of a client-server architecture. Java is used for the server component, for which startup time is not an issue. The CLI client is written in C++.