Variety of choices for C++ end up causing fragmentation, and all choices are flawed in some way. If you choose Cmake, someone will tell you how much it sucks, a

Variety of choices for C++ end up causing fragmentation, and all choices are flawed in some way. If you choose Cmake, someone will tell you how much it sucks, and you should have used Meson. You choose Meson, people will complain that it needs Python, or Bazel needs Java, or why bother with any of them if Makefile is good enough, and so on in circles forever. OTOH Cargo is the only option for Rust projects. There's nothing to bikeshed about. Everyone has it and knows how to use it. Apart from that the project is about memory safety. Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla already have huge C++ codebases, top engineers with lots of C++ experience, spent tons of effort on making it safe, and still weren't happy with the results.