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by bediger4000 1487 days ago
Why have all the previous Make alternatives failed to get traction?

I mean, ant, gradle, maven, imake, there's probably others... all have had their moment as the "It Girl" of builds, and then seemed to wither away. What's up with that?

2 comments

Maven is widely used with Java projects. It was never a general purpose make alternative.
CMake + ninja is more popular in new projects ime due to the sheer speed improvement over make.