Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to waf

The top open-source alternatives to waf are Bazel, Gradle, and Meson. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Bazel Landing Page
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Bazel

Bazel is a tool that automates software builds and tests.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration 61 social mentions
Gradle Landing Page
2

Gradle

Accelerate developer productivity. Gradle helps teams build, automate and deliver better software, faster. DocsExplore the documentation of Gradle. Find installation ..
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 37 social mentions
Meson Landing Page
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Meson

Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #JavaScript Package Manager #JS Build Tools 43 social mentions
SCons Landing Page
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SCons

SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #JavaScript Package Manager #JS Build Tools 14 social mentions
Ninja Build Landing Page
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Ninja Build

Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #JavaScript Package Manager #JS Build Tools 22 social mentions
tup Landing Page
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tup

Tup is a file-based build system for Linux, OSX, and Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration 19 social mentions
Please Landing Page
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Please

A Cross-Language Build System
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Action #Adventure #Games 11 social mentions
Apache Maven Landing Page
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Apache Maven

Apache Maven is a project comprehension and management software tool.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 51 social mentions
Jenkins Landing Page
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Jenkins

Jenkins is an open-source continuous integration server with 300+ plugins to support all kinds of software development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 5 social mentions
Ansible Landing Page
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Ansible

Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multi-node orchestration engine
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #IT Automation #Build And Deployment Automation 9 social mentions
Apache Ant Landing Page
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Apache Ant

Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 6 social mentions
Yarn Landing Page
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Yarn

Yarn is a package manager for your code.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #JS Build Tools 107 social mentions