There is the largely feature compatible muon¹ re-implementation that doesn't require Python, it is packaged in a few distributions too. As in all things of this nature there are some caveats².
It is actually pretty useful to have installed alongside meson, even if just for access to the manpages as documentation.
It is actually pretty useful to have installed alongside meson, even if just for access to the manpages as documentation.
¹ https://git.sr.ht/~lattis/muon
² https://muon.build/releases/edge/docs/status.html