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It seems that Google has more build systems that messengers: GN, Bazel, Soong, there were few more but I can not remember them.

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At least Rust has far less building systems than C and C++ building system jungle: C, GNU Make, BSD Make, Windows Make, GNU autotools, and much more. Google may have a valid reason for not using Cargo, since they may need to integrate Rust with existing C and C++ code. It would be nice if Cargo had a way to build and link C and C++ dependencies in the same source tree as there are many C libraries which the functionality is still missing in Rust.

Ninja! used in chrome/v8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_(build_system)

I think that ninja is fine, but I was wrong with the terms. All those are build automation tools[1] and ninja is a build system. Also, that article refers to GYP[2] yet another build automation tool from Google.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_automation

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GYP_(software)

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