Meson is described as 'Open source build system with multiplatform support, fast full and incremental builds, cross-compilation capabilities, and a user-friendly non-Turing complete DSL' and is a Build System in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Meson for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best Meson alternative is CMake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Meson are GNU Make, Maven, Gradle and Ant.
Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest.
Task is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than, for example, GNU Make.
Reggae is a (meta) build system with multiple front (D, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lua) and backends (make, ninja, tup, custom). This is alpha software, only tested on Linux and likely to have breaking changes made.
Powerfull and rich featured pure Java build and automation tool. Jerkar includes among others, dependency management, repository publication, super-easy build editing and depbugging.
Bazel is an open-source build and test tool similar to Make, Maven, and Gradle. It uses a human-readable, high-level build language. Bazel supports projects in multiple languages and builds outputs for multiple platforms.
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