For what it is worth, there is Muon, a third-party implementation of Meson written in C99 [1].
Haven't used it myself yet, though Muon has been in steady development over the last few years, and the developers claim that they implement the vast majority of the Meson core features.[1] https://sr.ht/~lattis/muon/
mdaniel|3 years ago
I'm aware I could just vanilla Meson but I was specifically interested in kicking the tires on the dbg in Muon since CLion just recently added debugging to CMake and I wanted to compare and contrast