The future of Buck

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/07/01/future-of-buck

by asimpletune • 5 years ago

31 18 5 years ago

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kgraves3• 5 years ago

just because this tool is written in rust does not mean facebook gets a pass for all the atrocities their software and algorithms have caused upon humanity.

echelon• 5 years ago

This is a losing argument and discounts the brilliant work and engineering happening here.

You can be happy about this project and accomplishment and still dislike the company, its practices, and its leadership.

I strongly dislike Facebook, but this is really cool. I'm fortunate we get nice things like this.

Same with Google.

croes• 5 years ago

Dirty money can afford good programmers. But the same programmers are the reason for the heavy tracking in the internet and the FOMO dark patterns.

kgraves3• 5 years ago

how has facebook's engineering tools directly and vastly improved the lives of ordinary people?

I really cannot find any examples anywhere of this.

bthrn• 5 years ago

I get your point, but I’m not so sure it’s a losing argument.

Brilliant minds could alternatively be doing equally brilliant things for any other company or organization than Facebook or Google, but instead, they do.

Shall we also marvel at the brilliant work and engineering that went into the development of the atomic bomb?

Perhaps nuclear advances still would have been made if the Manhattan Project had devoted its resources to similar research, but not with the goal of building a weapon.

Perhaps not. But I refuse to celebrate Facebook for what it is, and hope that we don’t need to count on it for engineering advancements.

pshc2• 5 years ago

At least it’s open source: https://github.com/facebook/buck/blob/master/LICENSE

I do agree. Facebook doesn’t get a pass regardless.

ipaddr• 5 years ago

Isn't that codebase in Java?

new_realist3• 5 years ago

Why not direct these investments to Bazel instead?

junon2• 5 years ago

Bazel is by Google. No way Facebook would shift funding to that.

Plus there are a variety of other open source build systems by smaller teams that could benefit from good funding. We don't need two giants dumping money into what is essentially the same build system with different branding, both of which aren't very good anyway.

new_realist3• 5 years ago

Bazel is the best out there, in my opinion. It’s not exactly targeted towards the hobbyist, though—more the professional.

new_realist3• 5 years ago

I think the answer is that contributing to Bazel will not get Facebook devs promoted, but creating something new will.

wizwit999• 5 years ago

The focus on the implementation in Rust in the blog post is a bit odd. That's largely inconsequential for the customers of the product.

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