ninja
a small build system with a focus on speed (by ninja-build)
PyBuilder
Software build automation tool for Python. (by pybuilder)
| ninja | PyBuilder | |
|---|---|---|
| 55 | - | |
| 12,108 | 1,822 | |
| 1.1% | 0.9% | |
| 8.7 | 5.0 | |
| 1 day ago | 3 months ago | |
| C++ | Python | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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 2025-06-20.
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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
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Ask HN: What outdated tech are you still using and are perfectly happy with?
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?
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I have spent two whole work days trying to install GLEW
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
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Installer script for CMake, Ninja, and Meson
I thought I would share my custom installer script for the latest GitHub versions of CMake, Ninja, and Meson.
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Building and Running Pidgin and Finch 3
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.
PyBuilder
Posts with mentions or reviews of PyBuilder.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning PyBuilder yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ninja and PyBuilder you can also consider the following projects:
meson - The Meson Build System
buildout - Buildout is a deployment automation tool written in and extended with Python
BitBake - The official bitbake Git is at https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
SCons
Invoke - Pythonic task management & command execution.
PlatformIO - Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development Excellence :alien: