Yeah cmake is pretty crappy, and it's a shame that nothing better popped up in the last, say, 20 years. However, to be fair cmake's main problem is it's appali

Yeah cmake is pretty crappy, and it's a shame that nothing better popped up in the last, say, 20 years. However, to be fair cmake's main problem is it's appalingly poor documentation and user experience. It's very telling that since the release of cmake 3 the main source of info on how to do cmake the right way is not anythig churned out by cmake, whose docs are pretty much unintelligible, but random blog posts that manage to put together basic idiomatic code snippets. This poor state of affairs is reflected in collaborative sources of info such as stack overflow, where well-meaning users reiterate poor or straight-out wrong ways of doing things mainly because they don't and can't know better.