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It’s really not good enough, it’s ok to admit it. Nobody likes CMake, it just somehow won the makefile generator wars. Having to a learn shitty, esoteric langua
by irishcoffee 6y ago
It’s really not good enough, it’s ok to admit it. Nobody likes CMake, it just somehow won the makefile generator wars. Having to a learn shitty, esoteric language to compile my code Is not something that makes me more productive.
- jcelerier 6y ago> Having to a learn shitty, esoteric language to compile my code Is not something that makes me more productive. You say that but frankly between CMake code and Ant or msbuild ...
- irishcoffee 6y agoQmake. It’s simple, it’s cross-platform, it gets out of my way.
- jcelerier 6y agoit's also going the way of the dodo as Qt 6 is migrating to CMake :p
- irishcoffee 6y ago5 will get forked because of the way 6 is being licensed.
- jcelerier 6y ago6 will be licensed like 5 : https://www.embeddeduse.com/2019/12/21/safe-guarding-the-lgpl-future-of-qt/ https://www.embeddeduse.com/2019/12/21/safe-guarding-the-lgp...
- freedomben 6y agoI agree. qmake was much, much better to work with than cmake. I tend to believe the reason cmake won is because qmake was so associated with Qt. The best tech does not always win.