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build //newsletter:​issue-7

Stories

• Build faster with Buck2: Our open source build system by Chris Hopman and Neil Mitchell announces Meta’s new open source build system, a fresh rewrite of Buck in Rust.

• Kotlin DSL is Now the Default for New Gradle Builds by Paul Merlin gives an overview of the Kotlin DSL for Gradle.

• Visibility features coming in Pants 2.16 by Alexey Tereshenkov motivates and explains visibility control in the Pants build system.

• Introducing rules_oci by Appu Goundan announces version 1.0 of rules_oci, a replacement for rules_docker.

• Announcing Skyscope by Ben Radford announces a new tool to visualize and inspect Bazel’s build graph interactively.

• Bootstrapping Uber’s Infrastructure on arm64 with Zig by Motiejus Jakštys, Laurynas Lubys, and Neringa Lukoševičiūtė describes how Uber implemented cross-compilation to arm64 with Bazel using the Zig cc toolchain.

• Nx 16 is Here by Zack DeRose describes what’s new in Nx version 16.

Projects

• Nixpacks is a tool to build OCI compliant images with Nix.

• bob is a build manager featuring hermetic builds using Nix.

Events

• The Buck2 team ran a Reddit AMA on May 3rd.

• Snapchat and EngFlow will organize Bazel Community Day in San Francisco on May 23rd. A write-up of the February event in Tel Aviv is available here.

• Google is inviting Bazel users to join the Bazel Office Hours to ask questions to Bazel developers and Bazel community experts on May 25th.