bazel-compile-commands-extractor VS buck2

It feels like there's zero tooling for bazel, even the C++ solution for Bazel, which is what I use for C++ is kind of a hack as opposed to first-class support backed by Google, like the IntelliJ plugin. Am I missing something or is it just that just all the Java people at Google use IntelliJ so they don't invest into other options?

I think the recommendation for c/c++ in Bazel is to use this: https://github.com/hedronvision/bazel-compile-commands-extra...

And use the compile command json file to power clangd. I'm not a vscode person but I would hope the vscode c++ plugin would support that

Can you elaborate? Is there a native way? I am using https://github.com/hedronvision/bazel-compile-commands-extractor

I don’t have any experience with bazel, but the only requirement for my setup is to have a “compile_commands.json” file generated by the build system. As far as I see, this extension provides the required functionality: https://github.com/hedronvision/bazel-compile-commands-extractor.

Yes, you can use Bazel-compile-commands-extractor to generate a compile_commands.json, assuming you are using clangd.

https://github.com/hedronvision/bazel-compile-commands-extractor is probably better.

https://buck2.build/ https://github.com/facebook/buck2

Rust support is also rather good ;) https://github.com/facebookincubator/reindeer

Buck 2 by Facebook

NOTE: I won’t mention SBT and Leiningen here because, with all due respect, they are niche build tools. I also won’t discuss Kobalt for the same reason (besides, it’s no longer actively maintained). Additionally, I won’t touch upon Bazel and Buck in this context, mainly because I’m not very familiar with them. If you have insights or comments about these tools, please feel free to share them in the comments 👇

There's a new build system which works on similar ideas to buck: https://buck2.build/

I don't think all these pieces are open source yet, but https://github.com/facebook/buck2/blob/main/prelude/rust/rust-analyzer/resolve_deps.bxl is a snippet that is used to drive Rust Analyzer

We have a small example project that demonstrates what that would look like with buck2: https://github.com/facebook/buck2/tree/main/examples/bootstrap

There are a few references to NixOS on the code/issues.[0] I wonder what Meta's use case is for NixOS.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/buck2/search?q=nixos&type=issues