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Why would I want to use this instead of ninja? It’s apparently a drop-in replacement but it doesn’t say what it’s trying to do better than the original.
by plorkyeran 4y ago
Why would I want to use this instead of ninja? It’s apparently a drop-in replacement but it doesn’t say what it’s trying to do better than the original.
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- toastal 4y agoProbably for teams that fight for honor and need an armored defense bonus to withstand medium to heavy attacks
- ori_b 4y agoThe code is readable and maintainable, and can be used in the Linux distro that the author maintains without pulling in a huge number of dependencies to build a C++ compiler. https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis https://sr.ht/~mcf/cproc/ https://sr.ht/~mcf/cproc/
- BaculumMeumEst 4y ago“written in C99 with a focus on simplicity, speed, and portability” is what appears to differentiate it from ninja. if that sounds interesting you should check it out and if not skip it
- plorkyeran 4y agoNinja is already fast, simple, and portable, so those aren’t differentiating factors. It appears to just be ninja but written in a different programming language.
- eska 4y agoIt not depending on Python seems useful for non-Python ecosystems.