<p>Speaking as someone who uses and likes meson because its a <em>developer</em> build tool, (AT isn't it says so right on its docs, its a distribution tool).  Unfortunately any alternative probably needs a "try it and see" approach to finding if its faster than AT, because its likely to only be a speed improvement for something Geanys size if it runs fewer commands (which it may do for the library stuff).  I don't think, but it needs to be proved, that there will be much speed improvement due to filesystem metadata access that <code>make</code> does that <code>ninja</code> doesn't for Geany (but its very important for say chromium).</p>
<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=793526" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/b4n">@b4n</a>:</p>
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<p>distribution tarballs</p>
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<p><code>ninja dist</code> according to the meson site</p>
<p>As for exotics, well, if they want Geany they can contribute a build system, its all open source.</p>
<p>IIRC somebody did offer to make a meson port in the past, but I can't remember who (and my googling didn't find it either, <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=181177" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/codebrainz">@codebrainz</a> google services might :).</p>

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