Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook
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HN comment orderI don't work in a shop where performance/speed is important, but I am looking for other ways to do things I would do in Make but...not in Make. For example, my use-case is similar to what Mike Bostock described in "Why Use Make" [0] when explaining how he uses Make to build out his data tranformation process. Most of my work is data transformation/small-scale ETL, but I just haven't been able to get into Make beyond trivial work, and I…
I get the sense that Bazel will end up with a larger ecosystem than Buck, because Google’s Cloud business depends on open-sourcing more stuff, so they’ll put more effort into open-source Bazel. Uber is migrating from Buck to Bazel, for instance.
(from Facebook) I just learned about Buck from the Yoga post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13124584
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-07 | Buck: a high-performance build tool | thom_nic | 1 | 1 |
| 2017-03-14 | Buck – A build system developed and used by FacebookFirst breakout · Best thread | Nimsical | 272 | 127 |
| 2019-04-21 | Buck: A high-performance build toolLatest 20+ point return | geezerjay | 94 | 69 |