I’ve mentioned the same thing before and ironically, CMake was developed in the course of building medical imaging software[0] that was using Tcl, a flexible, e

I’ve mentioned the same thing before and ironically, CMake was developed in the course of building medical imaging software[0] that was using Tcl, a flexible, embeddable language, but then decided to roll their own ad hoc language in this case. They left a LOT on the table with that decision, I think. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTK