> All this is just a gentle slap on the wrist for programming in your build system That's an awfully polite way of saying Yes, the CMake scripting language is

> All this is just a gentle slap on the wrist for programming in your build system That's an awfully polite way of saying Yes, the CMake scripting language is indeed terrible. It's meant to be used for complex package-detection logic. CMake Find modules can run hundreds of lines. It's not unreasonable to expect proper support for arrays, proper functions that can return values, a sane syntax, etc.