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Take a look at Ninja and Bazel. I ahree with you that CMake is worse than autoconf but I would argue that the tools which came after CMake are better than CMake
by jeltz 7y ago
Take a look at Ninja and Bazel. I ahree with you that CMake is worse than autoconf but I would argue that the tools which came after CMake are better than CMake and autoconf. So while there certainly are regressions not every new generation is worse than the previous.
- adgasf 7y agoNinja is an optimized back-end for other build-systems (including but not limited to CMake). It's not really intended to be used directly.