On: Ninja: A simple way to do builds

[nsm]

The ninja author has a (relatively) recent blog post about design decisions and lessons learned:

* The success and failure of ninja http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2020/05/ninja.html

[brabel → nsm]

Thanks for the link, it was a very nice read!

The author wrote Ninja initially as a weekend project. I've written a small build system like that as well, but I think I am the only person using it though :D funny to think that your weekend project could've accidentally become something widespread like Ninja (used to build Chrome, Android, Swift etc).