By David Röthlisberger. Comments welcome at david@rothlis.net. Published 4 Nov 2016. Last updated 7 Nov 2016. This article is Creative Commons licensed. Ninja is a build tool that claims to be much faster than good old Make. Ninja was originally created because a no-op build of the Chrome browser (where all the targets are already up to date) took 10 seconds with GNU Make; Ninja reportedly takes l
