6 engineers on Hacker News describe using SCons first-hand: 1 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Scons wasn't that bad, though, I just feel like the build script being turing complete was a pain.”
mixed · personal · winrid · 2024-02-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had the misfortune of using SCons on one project back in 2017-2019. It was ridiculous how slow it was.”
regret · production · 2 yr · budabudimir · 2020-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“SCons is the worst experience I've had with a build system. No one, even its advocates, ever really understood what was going on. Things became so much simpler”
regret · production · gfxgirl · 2020-09-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched from Scons to CMake and I have to admit I loved being able to use python for Scons”
endorse · production · umvi · 2020-09-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had to compile v8 and node to link against and scons wasn't playing nice w/ the build environment.”
regret · personal · jbr · 2010-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using premake4 (after trying SCons and waf).”
neutral · personal · dtf · 2010-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?