Best Build Automation Tools for Linux

Gradle Inc. is the company behind the leading software solution for improving developer productivity and happiness called Develocity (formerly Gradle Enterprise) and the popular open-source Gradle Build Tool, which is downloaded over 30 million times a month. Gradle is also pioneering the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE). Elite development teams from companies like Airbnb, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Nasdaq, and Netflix, practice DPE to deliver quality software more rapidly at scale. They achieve this by leveraging Develocity’s innovative build and test performance acceleration technologies and analytics to proactively improve the reliability of the developer toolchain and make failure troubleshooting more efficient.

FASTBuild is a high-performance, open-source build system for Windows, Linux and OS X. It supports highly scalable compilation, caching and network distribution. From the largest studios in the world to the smallest independent developers, FASTBuild is used in production every day to develop for PC/Mac/Linux, Consoles, Smartphones and retro systems. FASTBuild gives you all the tools you need to speed up your builds, allowing for improvements of 10x or more over other build systems. FASTBuild was designed from the ground up to support parallel compilation. The highly optimized main build pipeline is designed to be as thin as possible, dispatching build tasks to worker threads to maximize parallelism. FASTBuild has no artificial dependency bottlenecks like those present when compiling with Visual Studio/MSBuild. Unlike Visual Studio, FASTBuild is able to precisely manage the number of CPU cores used during a build avoiding excessive idle spots or excessive context switching.