yeah that's a recent thing though. it supports a bunch of customized toolchains, has backwards compatibility for major VS releases over the years (being able to

yeah that's a recent thing though. it supports a bunch of customized toolchains, has backwards compatibility for major VS releases over the years (being able to use older compilers can be important for large projects sometimes) and support for generating project files for a handful of IDEs. [1] maybe you're right and the generator support will become less relevant, but when i think of cmake, i think of a build system generator that makes potential cross platform ports easier. support for generating IDE project files for multiple IDEs is a nice feature for developers as well. [1] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-generators.7.html https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-generators....