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As a Python user and the fucking unicode mess, this is sooooo mean!
CMake is ugly as HELL and verbose, doesnt show you where is the error (at least for the CMakeLists) and gen a lot of files.
Autotools is for ... idek but not humans, thats for sure.
SCons is slow (Python!), but can be quite OK cuz its uses a real language, not a custom DSL.
Meson, cool but --native-file ???
And Make is the holy leader, on every Unix AND mingw.
Oh and Cons by GNU is very cool too, but hey, perl
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