It'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 t

It'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.