I'll say that I use Meson primarily due to the syntax. It's significantly easier to read, which leads to easier maintainability. For example, we started a new p

I'll say that I use Meson primarily due to the syntax. It's significantly easier to read, which leads to easier maintainability. For example, we started a new project and I wrote the build scripts in Meson. Then a team member had to come in an extend it and they were able to add onto the build with basically no assistance. I've never had this experience with CMake. I also really like wrapDB. It's made it easy to adopt some common libraries, like fmt. I'll say though, this projects I've worked on that use mesonDB were relatively small and encroaching on medium size projects. For large projects with complicated builds, I would've chosen something like bazel (and it's what our company has done).