All I'm saying is that Make was designed to be hand-written and often is, and Ninja was designed to be generated, and almost always is. See the manual: https:

All I'm saying is that Make was designed to be hand-written and often is, and Ninja was designed to be generated, and almost always is. See the manual: https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#_philosophical_overview https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#_philosophical_overview Concretely, if you look at how Android or buildroot used GNU make, you can't do that with Ninja alone -- you need another tool. GNU make is Turing complete, and Ninja isn't. IMO the Ninja design is better (which isn't surprising since it's not an accretion over decades).