What is Buck?
Buck encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources, and supports a variety of languages on many platforms.
Buck is a tool in the Java Build Tools category of a tech stack.
Buck is an open source tool with 8.6K GitHub stars and 1.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Buck's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Buck?
Companies
5 companies reportedly use Buck in their tech stacks, including Facebook, Square, and Pardel.
Developers
22 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Buck.
Buck Integrations
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Buck's Features
- Speed up your Android builds. Buck builds independent artifacts in parallel to take advantage of multiple cores. Further, it reduces incremental build times by keeping track of unchanged modules so that the minimal set of modules is rebuilt.
- Introduce ad-hoc build steps for building artifacts that are not supported out-of-the-box using the standard Ant build scripts for Android.
- Keep the logic for generating build rules in the build system instead of requiring a separate system to generate build files.
- Generate code-coverage metrics for your unit tests.
- Generate an IntelliJ project based on your build rules. This makes Buck ideal for both local development builds in an IDE as well as headless builds on a continuous integration machine.
- Make sense of your build dependencie
Buck Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Buck?
Bazel
Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
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