Hi,
Since I'm currently rebuilding a desktop gnu/linux distro from _my_ scratch:
- the wayland stack did switch to meson(python3)/ninja(c++). meson is
handling "classic" cases, but if you go in corner cases, it breaks
easily, for instance, if you want static libs/bins instead of dynamic
libs/bins (most of the time, the autotools can handle that roughly
without help).
I'm not going for a wayland stack right know but for a xorg stack and
the shared libepoxy(C, python3 code generator) is now meson based and
is a very
little project. Then I'm writting a small sh script to build it due
to high
meson breakage. I will still use the python3 code generator, but an
expat/C
rewritting looks sexy though... (I'm thinking about it for mesa
python2 code
generators, yes they do break with python3, lol). I'll push that as
"contrib" code upstream.
- llvm is a huge cmake(above insane c++ and not even able to build with
libressl, lol)/ninja(c++) project: if you want to stress test
samourai...
That said, unrolling c++ into C is a very good thing, since anything c++ is far
away from sanity and trying to fix that for the world is commendable. But the
real nasty points are huge critical c++ projects:
- gcc is turning to a c++ project (libcpp is the most damaged).
- llvm for shader compilation is just a massive pile of brain damaged
c++ junk, and my words are gentle.
- all modern and "working" js-enabled web renderers (aka, gecko and
webkit forks).
If I can switch from ninja to samourai on llvm, you bet I'll do it!
--
Sylvain
