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> we'd only read it in academic papers, like Google has done with its core technologies Nit: Google has been pretty generous in supporting developers outside t
by marcell 11y ago
> we'd only read it in academic papers, like Google has done with its core technologies
Nit: Google has been pretty generous in supporting developers outside the company. Eg., see Golang, Kubernetes, JS closure library, protofubf, bazel, and many more at github.com/google.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoNot to mention being a top contributor to the Linux kernel, clang/llvm, mysql, doing almost everyone's security research for them (including, notoriously, finding most of the issues that get released in Apple security patches), etc. Facebook sure does a better job of evangelizing their own open source stuff, but I'm not sure that means they're actually contributing more. Even some of Facebook's "contributions" are ripped off from Google, like buck.
- LegNeato 11y agoBuck was not "ripped off" from Google any more than Hadoop was "ripped off" from Google.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoBuck is a nearly verbatim clone of the build system used inside Google, except that the word "blaze" has been replaced by the word "buck", and it was written by xooglers at facebook.