rules_proto
buildtools
| rules_proto | buildtools | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 264 | 973 | |
| 1.1% | 0.9% | |
| 7.3 | 7.8 | |
| 21 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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rules_proto
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Buf raises $93M to deprecate REST/JSON
`proto_library` for building the `.bin` file from protos works great. Generating stubs/messages for "all" languages does not. Each language does not want to implement gRPC rules, the gRPC team does not want to implement rules for each language. Sort of a deadlock situation. For example:
- C++: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/bazel/cc_grpc_libra...
- Python: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/bazel/python_rules....
- ObjC: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/bazel/objc_grpc_lib...
- Java: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/blob/master/java_grpc_libr...
- Go (different semantics than all of the other): https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/blob/master/proto/def...
But there's also no real cohesion within the community. The biggest effort to date has been in https://github.com/stackb/rules_proto which integrates with gazelle.
tl;dr: Low alignment results in diverging implementations that are complicated to understand for newcomers. Buff's approach is much more appealing as it's a "this is the one way to do the right thing" and having it just work by detecting `proto_library` and doing all of the linting/registry stuff automagically in CI would be fantastic.
buildtools
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Surprise change of SHA
My code uses 4.2.5. https://github.com/bazelbuild/buildtools/releases/tag/4.2.5
What are some alternatives?
gRPC - The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC
bazel-watcher - Tools for building Bazel targets when source files change.
schematic - type-safe JSON spec and validation tool
bazel-remote - A remote cache for Bazel
gRPC - The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
please - High-performance extensible build system for reproducible multi-language builds.
rules_proto_grpc - Bazel rules for building Protobuf and gRPC code and libraries from proto_library targets
rules_go - Go rules for Bazel
buildbuddy - BuildBuddy is an open source Bazel build event viewer, result store, remote cache, and remote build execution platform.
dbx_build_tools - Dropbox's Bazel rules and tools