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Buck2: Our open source build system

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392 points mfiguiere | 2 comments | 06 Apr 23 16:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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mgaunard ◴[06 Apr 23 18:06 UTC] No.35472052[source]▶
No one seems to know how to do practical and useful build systems, so I write my own.

In particular the idea of writing something entirely generic that works for everything is a waste of time. The build system should be tailored to building your application in the way that matters to you and making the best of the resources that you have.

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1. Shish2k ◴[06 Apr 23 18:21 UTC] No.35472301[source]▶
This sounds like a nightmare if you’re dealing with even single-digit numbers of projects - even just in my personal spare-time hobby projects, I have ~5 nodejs projects, ~5 php projects, ~5 rust projects, ~5 python projects - and I find myself wishing for a common build tool because right now, even if I only have one build system _per language_, that still means that eg migrating from travis to github actions meant that I needed to rewrite four separate build/test/deploy workflows...
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2. mgaunard ◴[06 Apr 23 18:55 UTC] No.35472761[source]▶
I have 500 projects.

They're all made to follow the same conventions so neither of them specifies anything redundant.