Ninja is possibly the best example of the "Do one thing and do it well" philosophy. All it does is execute commands based on a static build graph. It's syntax

Ninja is possibly the best example of the "Do one thing and do it well" philosophy. All it does is execute commands based on a static build graph. It's syntax is simple enough that it's trivial to e.g. write a shell script to generate the build items if you need dynamic dependencies.