Transpiling JS code with BabelJS & a Makefile, with integration for Flow JS static types annotations

Pants supports Java, Scala, Python, C/C++, Go, Javascript/Node, Thrift, Protobuf and Android code.

Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible.
Multiplatform support for Linux, OSX, Windows, GCC, Clang, Visual Studio and others supported languages include C, C++, Fortran, Java, Rust
Optional Ninja backend

Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications

Makefile Tutorial by Example

GenericMakefile - A generic makefile for use with small/medium C and C++ projects.

Benchmarks of various build tools