BuckWhat 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 Build Automation category of a tech stack.
Key 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 Pros & Cons
Pros of Buck
- ✓Fast
- ✓Java
- ✓Runs on OSX
- ✓Windows Support
Cons of Buck
- ✗Lack of Documentation
- ✗Learning Curve
Buck Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Buck?
Gradle
Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.
CMake
It is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files, and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of the user's choice.
Apache Maven
Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.
