buildtools vs please

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A bazel BUILD file formatter and editor (by bazelbuild)

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High-performance extensible build system for reproducible multi-language builds. (by thought-machine)

Build Build Tool Build system multi-language Monorepo Bazel pants Buck please-build

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buildtools		please
	Project
1	Mentions	3
972	Stars	2,404
1.5%	Growth	0.6%
7.4	Activity	9.3
7 days ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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Surprise change of SHA
1 project | /r/bazel | 30 Jan 2023

My code uses 4.2.5. https://github.com/bazelbuild/buildtools/releases/tag/4.2.5

please

Posts with mentions or reviews of please. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.

Go Dependency management in large company projects - How do you do it?
5 projects | /r/golang | 8 Jul 2023

Hyper-large tech companies managing hyper-large monorepos using Bazel (google), buck (Facebook), please (thought machine), pants (Twitter, Foursquare & Square) enjoy them but also have a lot of resources devoted to running and maintaining it.
Redo: A recursive, general-purpose build system
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2021
Pants 2.8 adds Golang support: Remote caching, a consistent interface across languages, and minimal boilerplate
3 projects | /r/golang | 10 Nov 2021

Hi! So my understanding is that ex-Google engineers spread the idea of MonoRepo build tools to other similar-sized companies, and that lead to Facebook's Buck and I think Pants is Twitter's sort of a similar MonoRepo solution. Is that right? I know that Thought Machine has Please (which is actually written in Go, for Go monorepos), so I'm curious how Pants new Go support compares to Please.