Gradle and Bazel are absolutely general purpose build tools that are very widely used in industry. As a smaller contender, my personal favorite is the Mill bui

Gradle and Bazel are absolutely general purpose build tools that are very widely used in industry. As a smaller contender, my personal favorite is the Mill build tool (written in Scala), that is basically what a build tool should be, it’s as close to a theoretical perfect as possible. I really advise reading the blog post by its author Li Haoyi: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SoWhatsSoSpecialAboutTheMillScalaBuildTool.html https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SoWhatsSoSpecialAboutTheMillSca...