[badsectoracula]

All these systems annoy me with their dependencies... the only one that i kinda do not mind much is premake because it consists of a single self-contained executable. However even with that you need to have premake available. I'd prefer it if these programs took a page out of Autotools and created configuration scripts that only relied on whatever the target OS has available (plus the compiler) without having the need to install a separate build system since after a while you end up with a bunch of different build systems since everyone prefers theirs.

[bonzini]

Meson's only dependency is Python, with no external packages needed---only the standard library.

The only annoying part of Meson is that it only supports a few compilers (GCC, clang, ICC, MSVC), and requires porting to new compilers unlike Autoconf.