The de facto industry standard is cmake, I have never even seen bazel in the wild and I work across many companies on big C++ code bases. I primarily use meson,

The de facto industry standard is cmake, I have never even seen bazel in the wild and I work across many companies on big C++ code bases. I primarily use meson, and have even seen some cmake projects moved to meson, but I am under no illusions about it replacing cmake.