> For people on Windows, the fact that CMake works well on Windows is enough to sing its praises, Maybe, but how relevant is this? Application development on W

> For people on Windows, the fact that CMake works well on Windows is enough to sing its praises, Maybe, but how relevant is this? Application development on Windows is historically not based on open source, and for developing anything else than Windows apps, supporting something different from a POSIX system is not really important. > but I think Bazel will be eating the C and C++ world over the next five years. Do you think bazel is better than NixOS and GNU Guix? I think things like bazel are pretty much geared to big companies which want to move ecosystems to the cloud and have a lot of manpower to support very complex dependency systems. I think that for distributed open source projects, a system like Guix which decouples individual packages while suppurting (or even requiring) a build from source is better. There is also the issue that with a bazel build, there is potentially a whole lot of stuff which runs uncontrolled on your local system. It is basically "curl | bash" on stereoids, which means you hand over your machine to the cloud.