waruqi

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/17406-xmake

https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake

and xmake = make + project generator + package manager

In addition, I don't like cmake's DSL syntax, which is very tedious and difficult to maintain.

It can compile the project directly like Make/Ninja, or generate project files like CMake/Meson, and it also has a built-in package management system to help users solve the integrated use of C/C++ dependent libraries.

    xmake f --menu

    add_requires("tbox >1.6.1", "libuv master", "vcpkg::ffmpeg", "brew::pcre2/libpcre2-8")
    add_requires("conan::OpenSSL/1.0.2n@conan/stable", {alias = "openssl", optional = true, debug = true}) 
    target("test")
        set_kind("binary")
        add_files("src/*.c")
        add_packages("tbox", "libuv", "vcpkg::ffmpeg", "brew::pcre2/libpcre2-8", "openssl")

    add_requires("libuv master", "ffmpeg", "zlib 1.20.*", "tbox >1.6.1")
    target("test")
        set_kind("binary")
        add_files("src/*.c")
        add_packages("libuv", "ffmpeg", "tbox", "zlib")

  xmake project -k makefile
  xmake project -k vs2019
  xmake project -k cmakelist
  xmake project -k vsxmake 
  ...

Also I don't like the syntax of python

And it also supports self-built distributed repositories and third-party repositories (e.g. vcpkg, conan, clib, homebrew).

  add_requires("libuv master", "ffmpeg", "zlib 1.20.*")
  add_requires("tbox >1.6.1", {optional = true, debug = true})
  target("test")
    set_kind("shared")
    add_files("src/*.c")
    add_packages("libuv", "ffmpeg", "tbox", "zlib")

Unless a function has only two lines of code.

    printf("Hello World!\n");
    int x = 7;
    printf("%d!\n", x);
    return 0;