Well GYP stands for "generate your projects". And I think it has actually been replaced by the "gn" build system, which does look a bit like Blaze, but with no

Well GYP stands for "generate your projects". And I think it has actually been replaced by the "gn" build system, which does look a bit like Blaze, but with non-Python syntax. I think GYP is more like a build system generator than a build system. It was more like autoconf (although quite different semantically). The original goal was to generate Visual Studio and XCode projects. And it also generates Ninja files. Blaze/Bazel is not as portable, since it doesn't do Windows.