For what it’s worth, I’ve never heard of meson but I have used cmake gui once before for some reason.
(I can’t remember what project it was though… Maybe it was SDL?)
Well, I’ve been reading and poking around the terminal for about 2 hours now, and I have not quite figured out a good way to make Meson work instead of the Makefile 
I even tried Gradle xD but that was no good…
I guess the Makefile is maybe the best way I can do ?