ninja VS Visual Studio Code

Compare ninja vs Visual Studio Code and see what are their differences.

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ninja Visual Studio Code
51 2,838
10,485 158,095
1.5% 1.0%
7.9 10.0
5 days ago about 20 hours ago
C++ TypeScript
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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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.

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  • Ask HN: What outdated tech are you still using and are perfectly happy with?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

Visual Studio Code

Posts with mentions or reviews of Visual Studio Code. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ninja and Visual Studio Code you can also consider the following projects:

meson - The Meson Build System

thonny - Python IDE for beginners

SCons

reactide - Reactide is the first dedicated IDE for React web application development.

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

Spyder - Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment

Invoke - Pythonic task management & command execution.

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

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

KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

PyBuilder - Software build automation tool for Python.

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing