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As someone who still mostly uses make and looks warily at cmake, the proliferation of new build systems makes me nervous. Nervous because there are so many choi
by UncleOxidant 5y ago
As someone who still mostly uses make and looks warily at cmake, the proliferation of new build systems makes me nervous. Nervous because there are so many choices and the number seems to grow by the day and it's hard to tell what the next big build tool will end up being.
- Arnavion 5y agoIf make is good enough for you, by all means use it. I also use it for a variety of projects that don't need anything more complicated. People bring in autotools / cmake / meson when they have more complicated requirements than just "one target to build, one target to install" and don't want to write that logic by hand. Feature flags, optional dependencies, dependency compatibility tests, those sorts of things.