An alternative to Scons could be Doit (<https://pydoit.org/ https://pydoit.org/>), which if I remember correctly was built as a faster alternative to Scons. See

An alternative to Scons could be Doit (<https://pydoit.org/ https://pydoit.org/>), which if I remember correctly was built as a faster alternative to Scons. See also reasons of some users to prefer the later to other mentioned here: <https://pydoit.org/stories.html https://pydoit.org/stories.html>.