Adopting Bazel for iOS at Robinhood with Billy Irwin
In this episode recorded April 22, 2022, we discuss the Robinhood iOS platform team’s journey towards Bazel with Billy Irwin. We discuss the benefits & shortcomings of existing tools, the motivation to adopt Bazel, modularization of iOS apps at scale, the inevitability of ever-growing build & test times, the move away from Objective-C and mixed-source modules in favor of Swift, the Bazel onboarding process itself, the state of Bazel support & community support for mobile organizations, and other benefits of Bazel for iOS.