FinalBuilder vs SCons: What are the differences?

Developers describe FinalBuilder as "Automating your Build process". With FinalBuilder you don't need to edit xml, or write scripts. Visually define and debug your build scripts, then schedule them with windows scheduler, or integrate them with Continua CI, Jenkins or any other CI Server. On the other hand, SCons is detailed as "Open Source software construction tool". It is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of it as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In short, it is an easier, more reliable and faster way to build software.

FinalBuilder belongs to "Continuous Integration" category of the tech stack, while SCons can be primarily classified under "Automated Build Tools".

Some of the features offered by FinalBuilder are:

• Graphical Interface
• Scheduled Builds
• Flow Control

On the other hand, SCons provides the following key features:

• Reliable, automatic dependency analysis built-in for C, C++ and Fortran
• Use the power of a real programming language to solve build problems
• Built-in support for fetching source files from SCCS, RCS, CVS, BitKeeper and Perforce

SCons is an open source tool with 788 GitHub stars and 169 GitHub forks. Here's a link to SCons's open source repository on GitHub.