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Why? Just...why? I get that sometimes we like to build useless things because they are elegant, or beautiful, or "cool" in some sense of the word. But CMake is
by avilay 1mo ago
Why? Just...why?
I get that sometimes we like to build useless things because they are elegant, or beautiful, or "cool" in some sense of the word. But CMake is not cool in any sense of the word! I can barely use it to write build files, and that too I have gladly offloaded to AI. Sometimes when looking at CMake files in a large project, I become nostalgic about Makefiles, but then I think about what the rewrite would entail, and I resign myself to my fate.
- voxelghost 1mo agoSometimes these little endevors, are like art, they don't have to mean something, they just has to make you feel something. Feeling Queasy, is still a feeling, mind you.
- Bluestein 1mo agoThis is the best definition of so many things (from "enragement"/engagement) to the entire Drump presidency to, oh, so many things. So, thanks.- (Also, in a good way, mind: Art for art's sake.-)
- OJFord 1mo agoAn exercise in understanding gpt2, flexing the author's cmake skills, while demonstrating the absurd complexity of what it allows similarly to 'c++ templates are turing complete' or 'doom on my calculator'.