@cagatayy My library doesn't work on Windows, and even with autotools, it compiles within a minute, from a fresh git checkout to the end of `make check`. That's good enough for me. It doesn't change often enough to warrant serious work to be put in speeding the build up.
I *liked* most of Meson, mind you, but it preventing me from putting generated files into a subdir is a show-stopper :/