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jeremyjh • today at 12:10 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I just looked at one example...Wayland's meson.build is 142 LOC, but build.zig is 581.

https://github.com/allyourcodebase/wayland/blob/master/build... https://github.com/wayland-mirror/wayland/blob/main/meson.bu...

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wavesquid • today at 12:55 AM

The meson build is across multiple files, you should add together:

  meson.build
  meson_options.txt
  doc/meson.build
  egl/meson.build
  src/meson.build
  tests/meson.build
  cursor/meson.build
  doc/doxygen/meson.build
  doc/publican/meson.build
  doc/doxygen/xml/meson.build
  doc/publican/sources/meson.build
  doc/doxygen/xml/Client/meson.build
  doc/doxygen/xml/Server/meson.build
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gregdaniels421 • today at 12:25 AM

The Zig is far more explicit about what it is doing with lots of very long dotted commands for specifiy version headers and such, so maybe not super fair unless you like magic.

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