So... what does it do better than CMake and autotools?<p>Looks like the answers can be found here, which would be a more pertinent link. Can we change the original github link to this?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mesonbuild.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mesonbuild.com&#x2F;</a><p>At a glance, I don&#x27;t see how it solves the problem that autotools solves: test for features, not for versions. Not sure if that&#x27;s a problem people are trying to solve anymore. Instead, everyone is required to have the latest version of everything at all times to build, I suppose, and building older versions is never supported.