starlark-rust mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• starlark

Projektgeschichte

The README states that facebook/starlark-rust is the canonical repository and that the project was started by Damien Martin-Guillerez. It also notes that version 0.4.0 changed ownership from Google to Meta.

The project exists in the ecosystem of Starlark implementations used by build systems. The README names Bazel, Buck, and Buck2 as Starlark users and says Buck2 depends on this library.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The input package facts show the project packaged for Homebrew and Nix, making the `starlark` binary available outside Rust's Cargo ecosystem.

Adoption is mostly developer-infrastructure adoption rather than end-user CLI adoption: most consumers embed the Rust library into build and configuration systems, while the packaged binary is useful for experiments, linting, and basic standard-Starlark evaluation.

Wie es verwendet wird

The README describes six components, including parser, evaluator, derive macros, map structures, LSP support, and `starlark_bin`, the binary exposed through the command line.

The README cautions that most Starlark embeddings add domain-specific functions and data types, so the packaged binary is most useful as a vanilla Starlark test bed or linter rather than a drop-in evaluator for every Starlark file from a large build system.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package maintainers care about starlark-rust because Starlark is configuration language infrastructure. A standalone packaged interpreter/linter gives developers a way to test and inspect Starlark without installing a full build system.

The project is also notable because it bridges Rust packaging, language tooling, and build-system internals: the CLI is small enough to package, while the library is significant because Buck2 depends on it.

Zeitleiste

• 2021: Public GitHub issue #1 discussed compatibility with the Starlark specification.
• v0.4.0: README says ownership changed from Google to Meta.
• 2026: GitHub repository page lists version 0.14 as the latest release.

Related projects

• Related projects include the Java and Go Starlark implementations, Bazel, Buck, and Buck2.
• The README says the Rust implementation mostly follows the Starlark standard while documenting known compatibility differences.

Quellen

• https://github.com/facebook/starlark-rust#readme
• https://github.com/facebook/starlark-rust/issues/1
• source_facts.package-manager