The switch over to doing everything via target properties is the big difference between "modern" and "old school" CMake. This fixed a lot of CMake's problems ot

The switch over to doing everything via target properties is the big difference between "modern" and "old school" CMake. This fixed a lot of CMake's problems other than the scripting language being awful and has mostly happened over the last decade. CMake release notes pretty consistently have at least one thing that makes me go "how is that a thing that just got implemented now and not 20 years ago?" That's not exactly a positive, but there are a very large number of things where 15 years ago you'd be shocked and frustrated to discover that there's no good way to do it, while today there's an obvious and simple way.