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 mentionin

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://github.com/michaelforney/samurai