What was used to build C++ programs before Cmake?

• ninja

  51 10,506 7.9 C++

  a small build system with a focus on speed

  

Ninja showed real promise for a while, but then CMake grew up and people stopped seeing a reason to leave it behind.

• Bazel

  136 22,315 10.0 Java

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

  

Bazel is a Google project that showcases first-class support for the major languages Google uses (C++, Java, Go), and it'd probably have replaced CMake if it weren't written in Java, which brought a host of technical challenges. Then those challenges were fixed and Oracle threatened to bring legal challenges instead.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• scons

  9 1,947 9.3 Python

  SCons - a software construction tool

  

SCons never got popular enough to escape the niches it grew up in.

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