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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better ninja alternative or higher similarity.
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- 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
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ninja-build/ninja is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of ninja is C++.
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