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When comparing Premake vs Waf, the Slant community recommends Premake for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source build systems for C/C++?” Premake is ranked 4th while Waf is ranked 10th.
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Pro Written in Python
You don't have to learn a domain specific syntax. If you know Python, it's a breeze.
Pro File changes are tracked based on a hash of their changes not the time stamp
This means that switching branches in git isn't a big deal.
Pro Very fast
Much faster than its predecessor SCons.
Pro Fairly easy to extend
Pro Very simple graph based API
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