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When comparing Buck vs Waf, the Slant community recommends Buck for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source build systems for C/C++?” Buck is ranked 9th while Waf is ranked 10th.
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Pros
Pro Can be integrated with IntelliJ and Xcode IDEs
Pro Fast parallel builds
Buck runs artifact builds in parallel to increase the speed in which build jobs are run and take full advantage of all the cores available.
Pro Written in Python
You don't have to learn a domain specific syntax. If you know Python, it's a breeze.
Pro File changes are tracked based on a hash of their changes not the time stamp
This means that switching branches in git isn't a big deal.
Pro Very fast
Much faster than its predecessor SCons.
Pro Fairly easy to extend
Pro Very simple graph based API
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