> I have never spent more than a few hours trying to figure out how to do something in CMake. A well designed tool would not need a user to spend "a few hours"

> I have never spent more than a few hours trying to figure out how to do something in CMake. A well designed tool would not need a user to spend "a few hours" to learn how to do a specific thing. People are far too in love with their annoying build systems. Soon, if not already, tools to build CMakeLists.txt from something simpler will exist. Eventually that will expand to the point it itself requires a tool to generate config files so that it can generate config files for cmake so that cmake can finally fail while generating whatever your compiler wants, and then you have to debug that shit. I remain to be convinced that build tools are even fundamentally useful.