> Cmake is the de-facto option and is an ancient horrible mess that feels like a miracle if it works at all. What's left? I've been working with C++ for a few

> Cmake is the de-facto option and is an ancient horrible mess that feels like a miracle if it works at all. What's left? I've been working with C++ for a few years and did some work porting legacy apps to CMake. I've saw awful CMake legacy projects but since CMake 3.0 and the introduction of it's declarative way of setting up targets CMake is actually quite nice to work with. What exactly does CMake do that you feel is "an ancient horrible mess"? Can you provide any specific example?