[codetrotter]

I’ve used a few different build systems over time. A handful of them I’ve found quite agreeable, others not so much.

I once even went as far as writing a rudimentary build system from scratch myself for use in one of my personal projects. In that particular case, implementing my own build system turned out to be the right choice, but I also gained some insight into just how difficult it is to create a good build system so I would like to echo your sentiment about thanking the people that spend time developing fully fledged build systems.

I’ve never heard of meson before. A cursory glance at the meson docs is telling me that meson is worth looking into further. Thanks!

[wirrbel]

Meson is likeable and with ninja has a great user experience. I do think it is much easier to understand than cmake (and I have some years of cmake usage under my belt(