Following in the line of other organizations migrating their build pipelines to Bazel, Airbnb provided a detailed walk-through of the process that led them to leave Buck behind and improve both build

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Airbnb migrated from Buck to Bazel, improving build times, project generation, and loading times. They focused on build configuration and IDE integration, created a shim layer for rule differences, and used XcodeGen for Xcode workspace generation. The migration process was carried out in three steps to avoid disrupting developers' workflow. The migration resulted in reduced generation time and open time for Xcode.

How Airbnb Migrated from Buck to Bazel with Minimal Interference to Developers