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2013: The Year Of Open Source For Facebook Engineering

2013 was the year of open source for Facebook Engineering, as the social network was involved in several projects along those lines throughout the year.

Facebook offered a summary of its open-source activity in a post on its engineering blog. The projects are listed below, but much more detail is available in the blog post.

Mobile

Facebook released Android build tool Buck in April, enabling developers to build applications in one-half the time.
That same month marked the debut of xctool, which made it easier for engineers to compile and test iOS and Mac projects.