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Ninja Build vs SCons

A side-by-side look at Ninja Build and SCons. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Ninja Build

Ninja Build

Development

Ninja is a small, fast build system designed for compiling code quickly. It focuses on speed and supports parallel execution for very fast builds using multiple CPU cores.

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SCons

SCons

Development

SCons is an open source software construction tool that is used to build software applications and libraries. It is written in Python and uses Python scripts for its configuration files making it easy to customize and extend.

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