Meson Build System
An extremely fast, user-friendly open source build system

Meson is an open source build system designed to be fast and easy to use for software developers. It supports multiple platforms and languages including C, C++, Rust, Java, and others, with build definitions written in a readable, non-Turing-complete DSL. Meson emphasizes fast full and incremental builds, cross-compilation support, and a built-in multiplatform dependency provider.
Meson uses a simple, readable DSL for build definitions and is optimized internally for extremely fast full and incremental builds across multiple platforms and languages.
software developers working on multi-platform projects
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- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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