After years fighting with slowness and unmaintainability of Autotools, using meson is just a breeze.
You can get it all, quickly and cleanly.
You can get it all, quickly and cleanly.
https://lwn.net/Articles/706404/
https://thiblahute.github.io/jpakkane.github.io/Simple-compa...
The thing is apparently, ninja is indeed faster, but this matters only for very large projects with tens of thousands of files.
Speed of incremental builds matters, and in this respect, ninja is an advance, but is not a day-and-night difference either.
What it matters for developers is the development time, and doing things in automake takes 3-4 times of Autotools. Not to mention that the configuration time you loose waiting for a single line change.