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		wruza on Aug 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be If meson is actually python with special functions, why didn't they make it like "from meson import * " and then @target("all") def all: ... ?

matthiasv on Aug 18, 2017 [–]

Meson is written in Python not "actually Python". The build language is a custom non-Turing-complete DSL.

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