Before you call someone "hipster", I suggest you actually learn something about the problem. CMake is the defacto standard for building portable C/C++ software

Before you call someone "hipster", I suggest you actually learn something about the problem. CMake is the defacto standard for building portable C/C++ software today, there is also SCons. In fact, Qt includes its own build system called qmake. All of these offer much more than the GNU Autotools ever did. So why do these things exist when autotools are so wonderful? Well, autotools are a damn nightmare to maintain (m4 scripts anyone?) and next to impossible to use outside of the GNU ecosystem - try to use it on Windows or Android without crutches like MinGW or Cygwin. Basically, an autotools build system is pretty much unusable except on a POSIX/Unix-like platform and even then it handles only building of the package. Not a proper installation support (e.g. support for installer building/packaging), no tests, no continuous integration/compile farm support, poorly written m4 code breaks parallel compilation, etc.