I've only kicked the tyres of both, but Xmake seems to be more opinionated than Premake. It gives you quite a lot out of the box that you have to build yoursel

I've only kicked the tyres of both, but Xmake seems to be more opinionated than Premake. It gives you quite a lot out of the box that you have to build yourself in Premake. Eg (basic) dependency management. Tbh, I was impressed by Xmake. All I need is a meaningful project to use it on.