samurai

Ninja is great and feels natural coming from Make. What it lacks in features it makes up for with speed, which is what ultimately matters. Also worth mentioning is samurai[1], a pure C implementation of Ninja that's almost as fast yet easier to bootstrap needing only a C compiler. [1] https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai

https://codeload.github.com/michaelforney/samurai/zip/refs/t... https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai/releases/expanded_a...

I've added links to the below quote: >"oasis uses smaller and simpler implementations of libraries and tools whenever possible: musl instead of glibc (https://www.musl-libc.org/) sbase instead of coreutils (https://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/README.html) ubase instead of util-linux (https://git.suckless.org/ubase/file/README.html) pigz instead of gzip (https://zlib.net/pigz/) mandoc instead of man-db (https://mandoc.bsd.lv/) bearssl instead of openssl (https://bearssl.org/) oksh instead of bash (https://github.com/ibara/oksh) sdhcp instead of dhclient or dhcpcd (https://core.suckless.org/sdhcp/) vis instead of vim or emacs (https://github.com/martanne/vis) byacc instead of bison (https://invisible-island.net/byacc/) perp and sinit instead of sysvinit or system 44 (http://b0llix.net/perp/ https://github.com/wereHamster/perp https://troubl

Samurai is a faster, drop-in replacement for ninja. https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai Edit: It someone writes a ninja-compatible tool in Rust, they must call it "ronin."

"If you want to do what "scrappy Google" did these days, then you should use Python + Ninja." Or, better yet, use a faster^1 and more portable Ninja-compatible build utility written in C99. https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai 1. YMMV

and we should not forget about the simple C (C99) re-implementation of ninja from M. Forney: https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai

Why is Python not portable, as in, on which systems is "build Python and then use that to run Meson" not a reasonable option? The CI for boson seems like it runs on platforms where Python definitely is available, but also I notice the CI uses samurai, a reimplementation of ninja with a similar motivation: https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai Ninja is in C++ so I am even more confused at Sanurai. Is this just an implementation-diversity thing? (which is great!)

You could probably post-process samurai (a rewrite of ninja into C) into a single-file: https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai

Me, out loud: "Awwww! What cute site!" I am not ashamed. It's like a lil mini haiku OS (not to be confused with HaikuOS the open BeOS). - - - - Ooo! https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai > samurai is a ninja-compatible build tool written in C99 with a focus on simplicity, speed, and portability.