1# Buf 2 3> `buf` is a high-performance `protoc` replacement. 4 5## Installation 6 7Use `make bootstrap` in the root of this repo to install the version of `buf` used by Nomad. 8 9## Usage 10`make proto` in the root of this repo will invoke `buf` using the configuration in this directory. 11 12## Why use `buf` instead of `protoc`? 13 14Buf is a user-friendly tool to work with Protobuf that outperforms `protoc` in every conceivable way. 15It was written by the author(s) of [`prototool`](https://github.com/uber/prototool), another tool 16that made generating Protobuf easier, but which is now deprecated in favor of `buf`. Buf also does 17linting and breaking-change detection. 18