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CMake is horrendous. There was a reddit AMA when someone asked what the dev would change about CMake if back-compat wasn't and issue, and the dev said that had
by Ericson2314 6y ago
CMake is horrendous.
There was a reddit AMA when someone asked what the dev would change about CMake if back-compat wasn't and issue, and the dev said that hadn't thought about it. To me, that's the nail in the coffin: all engineers should think about how things ought to work, even if they cannot immediately fix it.
Just use Meson and leave this POS behind.
- cromka 6y ago> To me, that's the nail in the coffin: all engineers should think about how things ought to work, even if they cannot immediately fix it. This has always been a bone of contention between me and my peers or leads: I always intended to drill down to the root of the problem to understand how a system should behave, while most of the time they considered it a waste of time and frustrating. "Patch with a workaround and call it a day" mentality is ubiquitous nowadays, from what I see.
- Ericson2314 6y agoWell, it depends where you work, though perhaps I am a bit of an Oasis.