Besides having lsp (language server protocol), Visual C++, CLion and others, I have been successfully using CMake/Meson paired with Conan and I can tell from ex

Besides having lsp (language server protocol), Visual C++, CLion and others, I have been successfully using CMake/Meson paired with Conan and I can tell from experience that it is amazing what you can achieve. Someone will say Cargo or whatever, which is nice and simple. But with these tools you can choose all details and optimizations as well, something that other tools just hide. But you can still keep it simple with a conanfile.txt for your dependencies and the stock add_executable etc. in CMake/Meson and get done with it. If you feel CMake is subpar (bc its syntax and DSL are terrible, I agree with that) then you can use Meson. It works pretty well.