5 engineers on Hacker News describe using waf first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We switched to waf, which is customarily embedded within the source tree, and that just ends this problem forever.”
endorse · production · PaulDavisThe1st · 2022-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it was too complex for our needs and extending builds with our own steps became a chore.”
regret · production · dirtyaura · 2012-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The C and C++ code builds independently of the Python code (using waf, but I think this barely matters”
neutral · production · amluto · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after having used cmake, premake, waf, random perl and ruby scripts, or just checking vs projects into perforce manually”
neutral · production · bobdobbs666 · 2019-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using premake4 (after trying SCons and waf).”
neutral · personal · dtf · 2010-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?