It doesn't have any marquee products using it since, Blender, IIRC, dumped it.
For auxiliary things that you don't become expert in like source control, build systems, etc., it's vitally important to have a vibrant community around it so you can simply look up the answer and get back to your job. Or, you can have an emergent AI robot like Randal Schwartz, Wietse Venema, or Armin Rigo handle that support (seriously, do those guys ever sleep?). But you need to have one or the other, and Scons never seemed to.
I really don't understand why Scons never took off. I think it was simply that it was too early. Nobody actually cared about cross-platform in the sense of Windows/OS X/ Linux. Of course, Blender did care about that, and still dumped it. So, YMMV.
I think people only started to genuinely care about "cross platform" when developing both cloud code and client code simultaneously became a thing. And then that accelerated with the polyglot of languages layered on top of Javascript.
For auxiliary things that you don't become expert in like source control, build systems, etc., it's vitally important to have a vibrant community around it so you can simply look up the answer and get back to your job. Or, you can have an emergent AI robot like Randal Schwartz, Wietse Venema, or Armin Rigo handle that support (seriously, do those guys ever sleep?). But you need to have one or the other, and Scons never seemed to.
I really don't understand why Scons never took off. I think it was simply that it was too early. Nobody actually cared about cross-platform in the sense of Windows/OS X/ Linux. Of course, Blender did care about that, and still dumped it. So, YMMV.
I think people only started to genuinely care about "cross platform" when developing both cloud code and client code simultaneously became a thing. And then that accelerated with the polyglot of languages layered on top of Javascript.