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And yet we keep producing such tool over and over.

Meson seems to be the latest fashion in Linux circles, it seems...

All build systems suck.

You are trying to solve a Turing complete problem in a simplest low impact way as possible.

There is no good solution. Everyone will fall short in one way or another. Hence a new build system. The wheel never stops.

Any build system is as good as the local projects configuration for it. Any solution is good so long as when I press build everything that I wanted to build get built.

What do you mean by Turing-complete problems? Turing completeness is related to programming languages, not problems.

Most build tools do have some kind of Turing-complete tooling built in with their DSL. But I don't think that's an absolute necessity.

You are moving symbols based on the action of other symbols.

These symbols are artifacts/files. Elementary recursive Build-Scripts can be Turing complete even if the overall language isn't.

If meson is actually python with special functions, why didn't they make it like "from meson import * " and then @target("all") def all: ... ?

Meson is written in Python not "actually Python". The build language is a custom non-Turing-complete DSL.

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