ninja
a small build system with a focus on speed (by ninja-build)
Invoke
Pythonic task management & command execution. (by pyinvoke)
| ninja | Invoke | |
|---|---|---|
| 62 | 6 | |
| 12,989 | 4,756 | |
| 0.7% | 0.3% | |
| 8.5 | 7.2 | |
| 17 days ago | 2 months ago | |
| C++ | Python | |
| Apache License 2.0 | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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 2026-03-27.
- Ninja is always recompiling everything
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Building a 3D engine from scratch with C++ and Vulkan for web developers Part I: Bootstrapping Vulkan
Install: Ninja Getting Started
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ninja: a small build system with a focus on speed
Good news, I've been working an adding file content hashing to Ninja: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/pull/2735
That will fix the "switch branches back and forward" case :)
- Converting HEIC image extension in Node.js with the sharp library
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CMake Made Simple: A Reusable Template for Your First C++ Project
On Windows, download the binaries from the cmake and Ninja websites. After that, add the executables to your PATH.
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Learn Makefiles
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this limitation wrt Makefiles is entirely a choice by CMake, or at least a lack of volunteers. Ninja itself doesn't have any support for C++ modules (see https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/2457). In fact, Ninja has fewer features in that regard than plain make as Ninja requires all dependencies to be statically defined.
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Makefiles are older than Doom why are we still using them?
Ninja Build Tool
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The Success and Failure of Ninja (2020)
> Ninja is pretty easy to implement for the fun 20% of it and the remaining 80% is "just" some fiddly details.
There are many ninja generators out there already [1] but writing a simple, custom one shouldn't be too hard [2] and could make sense for some projects.
BTW, ninja is great but I wish the configuration file had used a more standard format, easier to parse and generate from any language. JSON would have been a better option I think, given the abundance of tooling around it.
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1: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/wiki/List-of-generators...
2: https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#ref_ninja_file
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TypeScript's Successor is Waiting, and You'll Never Want to Turn Back
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
Invoke
Posts with mentions or reviews of Invoke.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-12.
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Kodi 20 & Dramacool addon
This looks like this error: https://github.com/pyinvoke/invoke/issues/833
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Are there any TUI apps you recommend outside of ncdu / nnn / htop / vim / bat / fd / tig / duf?
Ahh. Will give it a go then. Also, if you are interested in writing the config in Python, checkout invoke. I find it a bit more flexible as you can change/tweak the sequence based on environments.
- Which of your favorite Python 3.11 packages lack Python 3.11 support?
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Replacement for imp.load_source()
This thread might help
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Build tool for small project /w PyCharm integration
invoke is great as it's a Python package so can be installed with your dependency manager of choice as a development dependency.
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Python Invoke tasks for Docker using Git Bash not working on a Windows system
Trying to research this problem, it seems there's some issues with pty=True and winpty. I already followed the suggestions of including winpty, changing pty to false, and still nothing. Furthermore, looking for this error online doesn't really pop up anything of help.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ninja and Invoke you can also consider the following projects:
meson - The Meson Build System
PlatformIO - Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development Excellence :alien:
BitBake - The official bitbake Git is at https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
doit - CLI task management & automation tool
PyBuilder - Software build automation tool for Python.
Nox - Flexible test automation for Python