Maven is a project development management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model: builds, dependency management, documentation creation, site publication, and distribution publication are all controlled from the declarative file. Maven can be extended by plugins to utilise a number of other development tools for reporting or the build process.

Apache Maven - Project Management and Comprehension Tool

Meson is a project to create the best possible next-generation build system. It is optimized for extremely fast full and incremental builds without sacrificing correctness. It supports cross compilation for many operating systems as well as bare metal. It has built-in multiplatform dependency provider that works together with distro packages.




Meson - The Build System

Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment. A comprehensive, built-in set of rules lets you build software for a wide variety of languages and platforms right out of the box.

Bazel - Google's own build tool

Nx is a next generation build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations. Nx builds a project graph by analyzing your workspace, which it then uses to only rebuild what is necessary and to never run the same computation twice. 
 
Nx comes with an interactive dependency diagram to help explore and understand your workspace. It provides a modern integrated dev experience. It has a high-quality VS Code plugin, interactive visualizations, GitHub integration and more.

Nx is a next generation build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations. Nx builds a project graph by analyzing your workspace, which it then uses to only rebuild what is necessary and to never run the same computation twice. 

Nx - Smart, Fast and Extensible Build System

Buck is a build system for Android that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources. Because Android applications are predominantly written in Java, Buck also functions as a Java build system. Buck builds independent artifacts in parallel to take advantage of multiple cores. Further, it reduces incremental build times by keeping track of unchanged modules so that the minimal set of modules is rebuilt.

Buck - An Android build tool from Facebook

Pants is a build system for software. It works particularly well for a source code workspace containing many distinct but interdependent pieces. It is optimizes for building multiple, dependent things from source, building code in a variety of languages, speed of build execution. A Pants build sees only the target it's building and the transitive dependencies of that target. This approach works well for a big repository containing several things.

Pants - Build System for Software Projects in a variety of Languages

Gradle pushes declarative builds to the next level by providing declarative language elements that you can assemble as you like. Those elements also provide build-by-convention support for Java, Groovy, OSGi, Web and Scala projects. This declarative language is extensible, add yours or extend exiting one. Gradle supports multi-project build. It provides a deep import for Ant project. Gradle fully supports your existing Maven or Ivy repository infrastructure for publishing and retrieving dependencies.

Gradle pushes declarative builds to the next level by providing declarative language elements that you can assemble as you like. Those elements also provide build-by-convention support for Java, Groovy, OSGi, Web and Scala projects. This declarative language is extensible, add yours or extend exiting one.

Graddle - Build Process Automation

Waf is a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications. Its features include:
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<li>Automatic build order: the build order is computed from input and output files, among others</li>
<li>Automatic dependencies: tasks to execute are detected by hashing files and commands</li>
<li>Performance: tasks are executed in parallel automatically, the startup time is meant to be fast (separation between configuration and build)</li>
<li>Flexibility: new commands and tasks can be added very easily through subclassing, bottlenecks for specific builds can be eliminated through dynamic method replacement</li>
<li>Extensibility: though many programming languages and compilers are already supported by default, many others are available as extensions</li>
<li>IDE support: Eclipse, Visual Studio and Xcode project generators (waflib/extras/)</li>
<li>Documentation: the application is based on a robust model documented in <a href="https://waf.io/book/">The Waf Book</a> and in the <a href="https://waf.io/apidocs/">API docs</a></li>
<li>Python compatibility: cPython 2.5 to 3.4, Jython 2.5, IronPython, and Pypy</li>
</ul>

Waf is a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications.

Waf - The meta build system

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