libunifex VS ninja

Compare libunifex vs ninja and see what are their differences.

libunifex

Unified Executors (by facebookexperimental)

ninja

a small build system with a focus on speed (by ninja-build)
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libunifex ninja
22 51
1,366 10,530
2.5% 1.1%
7.6 8.5
10 days ago 3 days ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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libunifex

Posts with mentions or reviews of libunifex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-23.
  • Comparing asio to unifex
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 23 Jun 2023
    I'm curious what led you to this conclusion. If you ran into scalability issues with its static_thread_pool, then that's a known issue. If it's something else, the authors (of which I'm one) would love to know.
  • How does one actually build a C++ project
    3 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 26 May 2023
    Instead of calling add_executable you will call add_library. Here is a (only moderately complicated) production example of a library that can be built standalone (along with tests and example executables), or as a subproject, where it builds only the library
  • How to write networking code now that will be easiest to adapt to the upcoming standard?
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 22 May 2023
    My original thought was to build my DDS implementation on top of libunifex in anticipation for standardization: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/libunifex
  • Executors/libunifex example project
    1 project | /r/Cplusplus | 10 Oct 2022
    I'm trying to understand how to work with the proposed executors in a project, but after watching Eric Niebler's cppcon talks (https://youtu.be/xLboNIf7BTg) and looking at the libunifex examples (https://github.com/facebookexperimental/libunifex/tree/main/examples) I still have a hard time wrapping my head around how to employ the sender/receiver pattern in a larger project.
  • Async/Await pattern in C++
    3 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 19 Jul 2022
    You have coroutines in C++20 but there is also the executives proposal that's making it's way into C++23 that is available as a library under the name unifex that only requires C++14
  • Using Asio for asynchronous gRPC clients and servers
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 6 Jun 2022
    Asio-grpc makes exactly that possible by providing an Asio execution_context compatible interface to the CompletionQueue. It supports all types of RPCs (including generic ones), completion tokens, cancellation, as well as libunifex sender/receiver (if you want to try out what might become std::execution). The latest release (v1.7.0) also introduced a GrpcStream class for writing Rust/Golang select-style code.
  • My thoughts and dreams about a standard user-space I/O scheduler
    4 projects | /r/cpp | 28 Apr 2022
    P2300: they are trying to standardize facebookexperimental/libunifex
  • "C++ makes it harder to shoot yourself, but when you do it blows your whole leg off"
    4 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 18 Feb 2022
    All the network handling for Instagram and all other Meta apps on all platforms is handled by their own C++ library https://github.com/facebookexperimental/libunifex.
  • State of the art for CPOs (customization points) in C++?
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 3 Dec 2021
    This. I'd also like to mention libunifex. It's entirely based on tag_invoke and is a testament as to how much power it actually provides. On the other hand, it also proves how cumbersome it is to define CPOs with tag_invoke. But IMO it's a lot better than anything else anyone has ever created, and users usually don't need to define new CPOs, only library writers do, so there's that.
  • Why do we need networking, executors, linear algebra, etc in the Standard Library?
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 28 Nov 2021
    A work in progress implementation of the library: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/libunifex

ninja

Posts with mentions or reviews of ninja. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-26.
  • TypeScript's Successor is Waiting, and You'll Never Want to Turn Back
    1 project | dev.to | 29 Jan 2024
    Under the hood, Rescript uses a build system called Ninja. Ninja is similar to Make, but cross-platform and more minimal/performant.
  • Using Make – writing less Makefile
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
  • Ask HN: What outdated tech are you still using and are perfectly happy with?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023
    Really? I thought most new projects were switching to ninja[^1] and have never used it.

    [^1]: https://ninja-build.org/

  • What was used to build C++ programs before Cmake?
    5 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 5 Jul 2023
  • I have spent two whole work days trying to install GLEW
    6 projects | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 3 Jul 2023
    warning: Starting with the September 2023 release, the default triplet for vcpkg libraries will change from x86-windows to the detected host triplet (x64-windows). To resolve this message, add --triplet x86-windows to keep the same behavior. Computing installation plan... The following packages will be built and installed: * egl-registry:x86-windows -> 2022-09-20 glew:x86-windows -> 2.2.0#3 * opengl:x86-windows -> 2022-12-04#3 * opengl-registry:x86-windows -> 2022-09-29#1 * vcpkg-cmake:x64-windows -> 2023-05-04 * vcpkg-cmake-config:x64-windows -> 2022-02-06#1 Additional packages (*) will be modified to complete this operation. Detecting compiler hash for triplet x86-windows... A suitable version of powershell-core was not found (required v7.2.11) Downloading portable powershell-core 7.2.11... Downloading powershell-core... https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.2.11/PowerShell-7.2.11-win-x86.zip->C:\vcpkg\downloads\PowerShell-7.2.11-win-x86.zip Downloading https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.2.11/PowerShell-7.2.11-win-x86.zip Extracting powershell-core... error: while detecting compiler information: The log file content at "C:\vcpkg\buildtrees\detect_compiler\stdout-x86-windows.log" is: -- Downloading https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases/download/v1.10.2/ninja-win.zip -> ninja-win-1.10.2.zip... -- Configuring x86-windows CMake Error at scripts/cmake/vcpkg_execute_required_process.cmake:112 (message): Command failed: C:/vcpkg/downloads/tools/ninja/1.10.2-windows/ninja.exe -v Working Directory: C:/vcpkg/buildtrees/detect_compiler/x86-windows-rel/vcpkg-parallel-configure Error code: 1 See logs for more information: C:\vcpkg\buildtrees\detect_compiler\config-x86-windows-rel-CMakeCache.txt.log C:\vcpkg\buildtrees\detect_compiler\config-x86-windows-out.log
  • Installer script for CMake, Ninja, and Meson
    4 projects | /r/bash | 1 Jun 2023
    I thought I would share my custom installer script for the latest GitHub versions of CMake, Ninja, and Meson.
  • Building and Running Pidgin and Finch 3
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2023
    Now that you have your build system all generated you can go ahead and build everything. By default Meson will use Ninja as the build tool. Ninja is similar to Make but much much faster. You can also generate additional build systems but that's outside of the scope of this post.
  • Is there any way to configure my project so I can work on it on both Windows and MacOS?
    2 projects | /r/sdl | 16 Apr 2023
    There are also some other tools like https://ninja-build.org/ that you might prefer using instead
  • Bitdefender blocked Explorer.exe and Ninja.exe has been quarantined
    1 project | /r/antivirus | 16 Feb 2023
    I got Ninja from https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja, latest release. I'm assuming this is a false positive?
  • Just: A Command Runner
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2023
    Oh excellent, then better (and more portable!) tools are available:

    http://pants.build

    https://ninja-build.org

    https://buck.build

    and, if you hate yourself: https://bazel.build

What are some alternatives?

When comparing libunifex and ninja you can also consider the following projects:

cppcoro - A library of C++ coroutine abstractions for the coroutines TS

meson - The Meson Build System

concurrencpp - Modern concurrency for C++. Tasks, executors, timers and C++20 coroutines to rule them all

SCons

Taskflow - A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming System

Bazel - a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

Restbed - Corvusoft's Restbed framework brings asynchronous RESTful functionality to C++14 applications.

Invoke - Pythonic task management & command execution.

corrade - C++11 multiplatform utility library

BitBake - The official bitbake Git is at https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.

Boost.Beast - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11

PyBuilder - Software build automation tool for Python.