Quick rundown of benefits:
- Much faster:
- Autotools (with autogen): 22 seconds
- Meson: 7 seconds
- Meson (with ccache): 2 seconds
- Simpler:
- ~1000 lines smaller
- Single simple language
- Potentially better Windows (Visual Studio) support
What is not done:
- Complete Windows support
- OSX support (easy)
Closes#2013Closes#1937Closes#1803
HexChat seems to compile fine with clang so why to not test it too.
-j$(nproc) seems to work with HexChat and fast-finish marks build as
failed if one job fails.
Fast finish won't stop jobs that aren't finished at the time of failure.
Closes#1147