Meson is quite nice if you want to build software exactly and exclusively how the Meson designers want to build software. The world does not work like this tho

Meson is quite nice if you want to build software exactly and exclusively how the Meson designers want to build software. The world does not work like this though. CMake is weird but once you've learned some non-intuitive stuff, it works very well and there's a reason why pretty much everyone is using it.