Comment by johnisgood

I do not know about Rust (because of all these lifetime and borrow checking stuff), but Go is definitely one of the languages one can easily contribute to without knowing much about the language, especially if you use VSCode with its Go extension.

I do not like C++ projects, they are behemoths, slow to compile, and C++ continues getting so much bullshit bolted on top of the language. It is extremely complicated, at least for me.

Most of my projects - regardless of language - has extremely simple build instructions, no matter how large it is.

As for GIMP, "meson" and "ninja" is not too bad, I have come across projects with much worse build instructions, but I agree, it is leaning towards "complicated".

> Once I started thinking about using a chroot to fix dependency issues after I'd already built bebl and gegl

Been there, done that. I remember compiling GCC myself, it was not as straightforward as, say, LLVM + clang. I think the issue is not with the language itself, however, but the developers who do not simplify the build process.