People have a mental model of programming languages, and a better language won’t make you question it all that much, most things should be somewhat understanda

People have a mental model of programming languages, and a better language won’t make you question it all that much, most things should be somewhat understandable even by just knowing another language in the same paradigm. Cmake is its own universe of random conventions duck taped together, and is famously hated. It is a great tool in that cross-platform building of C/C++ programs is a very hard problem and it is the de facto choice for that since it can solve it, but that doesn’t make criticism of its abstractions/language less true. It really is terrible.