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You seem to have a lot of experience with some hairy stuff. Mine consists of creating some open source C projects using autotools, and also cloning / building p

You seem to have a lot of experience with some hairy stuff. Mine consists of creating some open source C projects using autotools, and also cloning / building perhaps 7 projects I frequently use on Ubuntu and popOS which I have not struggled with. But totally believe that autotools hell is widespread. My total nightmare experience has been with CMake, with a project that mixed C and C++. IIRC it had to do with trying to get something to work on LLVM / macOS which it wasn't originally supported for.

kazinator 4y ago
To be clear, I'm dead set against CMake. I would never voluntarily agree with that being introduced anywhere for any purpose. The concept is bad and the implementation is atrocious. In no uncertain terms, CMake is harmful garbage.
- mathstuf 4y ago
  I'm curious: do you mind being a bit more specific? Feel free to send an email (easily discoverable from Git commits I make and end up on Github; same handle here and there). (FD: CMake developer) I certainly understand a lot of the gripes that people have had, but the amount of tribal knowledge for obscure platform behaviors encoded in CMake is…vast. I am certainly in the "things need to improve" camp, but I don't think burning all the bridges that have been built is the way to go either.