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Rather than the "killer app", that's the only thing that cmake does better than other systems, and the only reason for anybody to use cmake.
by dima55 3y ago
Rather than the "killer app", that's the only thing that cmake does better than other systems, and the only reason for anybody to use cmake.
- professoretc 3y agoIt's kind of weird that these days, many (most?) projects use Cmake directly as their build tool. They don't generate a VC or Xcode project and then work from that; they generate a VC project and then immediately build it. The CMakeLists.txt effectively is the project definition. VS now has support for opening CMake projects directly, without creating a VS project file from them. So the thing that made CMake useful (and what also makes it complicated...), is now used less and less.