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Seems to be(come) the de-facto standard in the C++ world.

• available on a lot of platforms
• lot of tutorials, resources, etc.
• used as project model by some IDEs
• can be slow at times
• carries a lot of technical debt
• clumsy syntax

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Quite OK for small projects. Every C++ programmer should know how to use Make.

• ubiquitous, portable
• a lot of limitations
• not very expressive syntax

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• fast, seems to scale well
• rather rigid project organization
• has many dependencies itself

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• uniform across platforms, no project generation step
• supports wildcard patterns
• support for C++ Modules
• support for cross-compilation
• skips recompilation of ignorable changes (comments, whitespaces, etc).
• dependency management
• no dependencies, only C++ compiler required

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• command-line based build system from Microsoft
• packaged with Visual Studio, but also available as stand-alone application.
• XML-based build files
• supported by , Embarcadero C++Builder

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Part of the Qt Project .

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• automatic dependency analysis
• uses a real programming language (Python) for config files
• pretty verbose; even common tasks require a lot of code
• can be slow for big projects

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tool for generating compilation databases (compile_commands.json) for clang tooling and/or LSP language servers