Evan Martin (evmar) started Ninja when he was working on Chrome at Google: https://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.html https://neugierig.o

Evan Martin (evmar) started Ninja when he was working on Chrome at Google: https://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.html https://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.... Hence, it's used in a lot of Google projects.