alt Hacker NewsNeil Mitchell is also an author of Shake which is based on this paper.
Buck and Buck2 from Meta are descendants. Buck2 is an excellent piece of software. Too bad it is still niche.
Neil Mitchell is also an author of Shake which is based on this paper.
Buck and Buck2 from Meta are descendants. Buck2 is an excellent piece of software. Too bad it is still niche.
Not sure if niche is right word to describe buck2; as I understand it's perfectly good general purpose build system. What it really is missing is just users, so that the ecosystem for it could get bootstrapped.
It's kinda awkward situation with Bazel, buck2 is arguably simply better system but Bazel has an ecosystem. That makes both of them less attractive solutions atm.
Naturally, the ecosystem is a chicken and egg situation; it will not improve unless some brave souls will do some trailblazing. Meta can not be expected to solve this when they have their own custom internal ecosystem which is not really applicable for others.