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I really loved SCons and used it for most of my personal projects, but beyond a certain project size it really starts to show performance issues. At work we used to use SCons for a major code base and even running it without any source changes took a good 30s.

We eventually switched to Blueprint.

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For better or worse, a name like "Blueprint" is virtually useless without a link. Even googling is worthless, since it collides with...everything.

Search for "Blueprint build tool"

https://opensource.google.com/projects/blueprint

https://github.com/google/blueprint

Duckduckgo for [blueprint build system] returns https://github.com/google/blueprint as the first hit, so I think it's that.

Edit: Google, for me, doesn't return that on the first page, but the first result is https://opensource.google.com/projects/blueprint which links to it.

Interesting. DDG for "blueprint build tool" doesn't get anything relevant, but "blueprint build system" works fine. Sigh.

Godot is a relatively big project, and it seems to work well for them.

Many Godot users are unhappy with SCons https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/16014

I guess I haven't reached that size (not surprising given what I use it for; mostly LaTeX compilation and PDF postprocessing). How many lines/files did you find to be a problem?

I hadn’t heard of blueprint before. What has been your experience?

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