@nprofile1q... Interestingly one thing I'd praise meson for is it's rather extensive documentation to the point where I don't think I saw anything which wasn't already documented and haven't had to check meson's source code.

Like meson(1) and meson-reference(3) manpages works okay, and otherwise https://mesonbuild.com/Manual.html has what I need.

Like it's far from the level of imprecision of CMake or autotools documentation which tends to force doing trial-and-error (and so effectively, luck and lack of portability).