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Similar to EdenFS/Sapling VCS, buck2 is being developed as such a fast pace that it's hard to imagine there would be any OSS support for it. Together with buck2 are 3-5 other repos that are supposed to be built and used together with it.

If you want stability, Bazel is still a much better choice with their LTS release program.

The readme states the following

> This project is not yet polished. We are continuing to develop it in the open, but don't expect it to be suitable for most people…

So it’s not ready yet to be used for anything serious I assume.

I would rather have a look at Pants since it's now developed for the needs of Toolchain's customers, and not following the roadmap of a big company with a pretty unique infra. Its engine was also rewritten from Java to Rust.

I cannot wait until Pants supports Rust as a target language (they were looking for rust consumers as of 3-6 months ago if I recall). For our python needs it was a real breath of fresh air. I'm now at a shop without it and need to deal with slow dependency installs and dependency conflicts again :'(

I was wondering the same. I’ve heard of Buck2 the other day and it seems much better. Anyone has tried both?