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# The Meson Build system
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## Overview
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Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible.
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The main design point of Meson is that every moment a developer spends writing or debugging build definitions is a second wasted. So is every second spent waiting for the build system to actually start compiling code.
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## Features
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* multiplatform support for Linux, OSX, Windows, GCC, Clang, Visual Studio and others
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* supported languages include C, C++, Fortran, Java, Rust
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* build definitions in a very readable and user friendly non-Turing complete DSL
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* cross compilation for many operating systems as well as bare metal
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* optimized for extremely fast full and incremental builds without sacrificing correctness
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* built-in multiplatform dependency provider that works together with distro packages
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* fun!
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## Community
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There are two main methods of connecting with other Meson developers. The first one is the mailing list, which is hosted at [Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mesonbuild).
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The second way is via IRC. The channel to use is <tt>#mesonbuild</tt> at [Freenode](https://freenode.net/).
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## Development
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All development on Meson is done on [GitHub project](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson). For further info look into the <tt>contributing.txt</tt> file that comes with Meson's source checkout.
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You do not need to sign a CLA to contribute to Meson.
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