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Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook

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Re: Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook

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Post by lacker »

Buck has been open source for a while! It's especially popular among larger companies who have a ton of mobile developers contributing to their apps, but I'm not sure if FB has ever publicized who exactly is using Buck. Other companies have been contributing to the Buck ecosystem, too, though, like https://github.com/uber/okbuck

Re: Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook

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Post by jameside »

spankalee wrote: post #2

This looks like a clone of Google's Blaze/Bazel: https://bazel.build/

Blaze predates Buck but Buck was open-sourced before Bazel. The two tools also have different origins (Blaze for server applications and Buck for mobile when I was at each respective company).

Re: Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook

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Post by Xyz9292929 »

spankalee wrote: post #2

This looks like a clone of Google's Blaze/Bazel: https://bazel.build/

Buck was started after former google employees at facebook wanted to use something like blaze (ended up being called bazel). Kinda like a lot of other things they copied from google at facebook. Dremel -> presto, etc.

Re: Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook

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Post by danso »

I 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 often end up writing things in Rake (Ruby).

So I was wondering if other devs had tried using Buck/Bazel for everyday hobbies and projects, and whether you stuck with the new tool or went back to Make? The portability of Makefiles isn't a high priority for me, and I like experimenting with different systems for my own projects.

[0] https://bost.ocks.org/mike/make/

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