if you do cross platform(win,mac,linux), cmake is a good choice if you do linux 98% of the time then make is good enough. ninja does parallel build as good as

if you do cross platform(win,mac,linux), cmake is a good choice if you do linux 98% of the time then make is good enough. ninja does parallel build as good as 'make -j N' to me. meson, bazel are also good, but I don't have huge projects to leverage. all in all, make is what I use these days, solid, easy to read, get the job done.