> You seriously compare whatever this ninja thing is to valgrind with a straight face? In so much as neither is pre-installed on a consumer operating system, y

> You seriously compare whatever this ninja thing is to valgrind with a straight face? In so much as neither is pre-installed on a consumer operating system, yes, they are obviously equivalent. > There’s value in not overloading your cognitive capacity with the most recent fads Ninja has been the standard backend for CMake and other meta-generators for 11 years, it is hardly recent or a fad. Moreover, you don't need to know anything about it, since it's a task-running backend format. You need to "know" it as much as you know the ELF object format or LLVM IR, your tools use it not you personally.