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> no cmake isn't that great Nor is cmake even really a standard: after thirty-odd years writing C++, I've yet to work on a project which used it!

• PittleyDunkin 2y ago
  That's pretty damn impressive! How did you manage to avoid codebases with CMake? Or are you just saying you personally chose not to use it for your own?
  • marssaxman 2y ago
    It simply hasn't come up: none of the teams I've ever worked on have chosen CMake. I've certainly encountered & compiled libraries which use it, but I've never had any reason to edit a CMakeLists file myself. Of course CMake has only really been a practical tool for 20-ish of those 30-odd years, and "Modern CMake" was only published twelve years ago; it's definitely gained a lot of popularity over the last decade, but the idea that CMake is the default C++ build system, not just one among many, still feels to me like a recent change.
    • funny_falcon 2y ago
      It seems meson is gaining traction and will overpass cmake in near future.