Did you use both extensively? Or you just talk from a-priori opinion by the looks? I spent a ton of time adjusting toolchains and doing string handling, regex

Did you use both extensively? Or you just talk from a-priori opinion by the looks? I spent a ton of time adjusting toolchains and doing string handling, regex handling or command invocations with escapes, lists vs strings etc. in CMake. Dnt get me started with options vs set in CMake and caching... The waste of time was so massive and frustrating that I ended up moving to Meson. It is working remarkably better.