# ninja-build/ninja > Ninja is a small build system focused on speed. It reads build.ninja files and executes build commands, typically generated by other tools such as CMake or Meson. - Magnitude: 0.8 out of 10 — Quiet - Stars: 13,293 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-08, 10:59–11:58 UTC, ≈ 1 by evening - Star trust: star growth looks organic - Category: Developer tools · Language: C++ · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2011-02-06 · Last push: 2026-09-24 - GitHub: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja · Homepage: https://ninja-build.org/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ninja-build/ninja ## Useful for - Build a C++ project via CMake with the Ninja generator for fast incremental builds - Run ninja to rebuild only changed files in a large project - Generate project documentation with ninja manual or ninja doxygen ## Why it’s here - Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-08 (UTC), 10:59–11:58: 13293 → 13293 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval. - GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +3 stars. ## Star trust Star growth looks organic. Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer. ## Numbers - Forks: 1,839 - Issues and pull requests: 2,807 - Watchers: 259 - Average over the last week: 3 per day - Usual pace: 3 per day - Stars in the last hour (measured): 0 - Latest release: v1.13.2 (2025-11-20) ## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial) 2026-09-09 … 2026-10-08: 2, 6, 6, 2, 3, 5, 5, 2, 7, 5, 2, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 2, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 5, 4, 3, 1, 4, 3, 4, 0 ## Spotted in now - GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +3 stars ## More in this category 1. **tester-army/e2e** — 7.9 · Breakout · Developer tools · TypeScript · +578 stars measured 2026-10-08, 00:01–11:45 UTC, ≈ 1,156 by evening End-to-end testing framework for web and mobile apps: a test goal is described in natural language, an agent drives the app to reach it, and the result is checked with locators and assertions. Recorded agent steps replay without model… Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/tester-army/e2e.md 2. **pingdotgg/ts-rust** — 7.7 · Early signal · Developer tools · Rust · +163 stars measured 2026-10-08, 00:01–11:45 UTC, ≈ 378 by evening An experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc), including the type checker, language server and API. Positioned as a faster alternative to tsc, including for WASM use. Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/pingdotgg/ts-rust.md 3. **zerobrewhq/zerobrew** — 6.8 · Breakout · Developer tools · Rust · +212 stars measured 2026-10-08, 05:39–11:46 UTC, ≈ 346 by evening zerobrew is a Rust-based Homebrew alternative for macOS and Linux with a uv-style architecture that installs Homebrew packages much faster via caching and a shared store. Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/zerobrewhq/zerobrew.md 4. **EpicGames/raddebugger** — 6.8 · Breakout · Developer tools · C · +125 stars measured 2026-10-08, 00:02–11:46 UTC, ≈ 253 by evening A native Windows x64 user-mode graphical debugger for multi-process programs, with its own RDI debug info format and a fast x64 PE/COFF linker. In alpha, currently supports local Windows x64 debugging with PDBs. Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/EpicGames/raddebugger.md 5. **manaflow-ai/cmux** — 6.3 · Breakout · Developer tools · Swift · +166 stars measured 2026-10-08, 00:03–11:46 UTC, ≈ 318 by evening A Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs, a sidebar, and notifications for AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex. It helps run many parallel sessions and see which agent is waiting for input. Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/manaflow-ai/cmux.md --- Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score. Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast. Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself. Data as of 2026-10-08 12:00 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.