buck2 VS allocative

Compare buck2 vs allocative and see what are their differences.

buck2

Build system, successor to Buck (by facebook)

allocative

Library and proc macro to analyze memory usage of data structures in rust. (by facebookexperimental)
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buck2 allocative
31 2
3,287 117
2.3% 10.3%
10.0 7.5
6 days ago 17 days ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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buck2

Posts with mentions or reviews of buck2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.

allocative

Posts with mentions or reviews of allocative. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-08.
  • Meta Open Sources Buck2: Large Scale Rust-based Build System
    1 project | /r/rust | 7 Apr 2023
    2x Build time speed up, flexible across languages. Other potentially useful tooling they used to build it: Text based UI Builder: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2022/07/21/superconsole/ Memory Profiler: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/allocative Gazebo Rust Utilities: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/06/29/rust-nibbles-gazebo-prelude/ Not associated with Meta, just thought it was cool!
  • Buck2: preview of the Rust rewrite of Buck1, a Bazel-like build system created by Facebook
    4 projects | /r/rust | 8 Dec 2022
    It's also available stand alone - https://github.com/facebookexperimental/allocative. The idea is you annotate how much memory each type uses, and then can get readable memory profiles in terms of the Rust types you understand.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing buck2 and allocative you can also consider the following projects:

turbo - Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turbopack and Turborepo.

Bazel - a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

HHVM - A virtual machine for executing programs written in Hack.

Vcpkg - C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS

rfcs - RFC process for Bytecode Alliance projects

PyOxidizer - A modern Python application packaging and distribution tool

buck2-prelude - Prelude for the Buck2 project

minio - The Object Store for AI Data Infrastructure

hello-monorepo-bazel-example - Bazel example polyglot (rust, c++, gRPC, docker) monorepo

depot - @ghuntley's personal monorepo [Moved to: https://github.com/ghuntley/ghuntley]

librunecoral

reduze - Zig program reduction is upstream in compiler due to various parser + formatter interactions.