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The success and failure of Ninja (2020)
Reflecting on my most successful open source project.
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The Jujutsu version control system
The missing introduction.
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Chromium Notes: Ninja, a new build system
When we first started porting Chrome away from just Windows, we intended to use Scons to build Chrome on all our platforms. But early on in development I discovered that Scons, despite its admirable goals of correctness and ease of use, was quite slow — it could take 40 seconds from starting Scons before it decided to…