Yes. So in Sciter I've replaced its build system with relatively simple premake5 script. That replacement took couple of days but was worth it. Premake5 generates human-readable IDE solutions and make files. So you need just a compiler to build the whole thing.
> building it from source takes 20-30 minutes on a modern laptop.
It is not that bad actually. Just tried full rebuild of x64/Windows version:
Whole sciter.dll (HTML/CSS/JS/Graphics) with Skia backend:
sciter.dll build completed at 9:11 AM and took 07:03.415 minutes
sciter.dll build completed at 9:22 AM and took 02:34.412 minutes
> it's constantly changing its APIs
That's very true and is a pain indeed if to change its version frequently. Yet there is no such concept as "Skia version" - just revisions/milestones. It used to be an attempt to make stable plain C API but AFAIR it was removed recently.
Same thing about Google ANGLE that I started to use recently in Sciter.GLX: https://sciter.com/sciter-glx-beta2/