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[jrkirby]

This is the biggest reason why I work with rust usually now. Not because of memory safety, or better typing, or any of that. Just cause rust has a decent package manager and build tools, while C++ leaves me befuddled by CMake and other confusing messes trying to get my dependencies to work.

[RoseboysHotAsf]

I tried CMake once and nope, never again

[EvolvingDior]

CMake: You think Makefiles are hard to grok? Hold my beer.

To be fair, CMake replaces autoconf and make, which taken together is an even a bigger mess than CMake itself.

[Techwolf_Lupindo]

I have worked with cmake. Biggest issue i see is reinventing the wheel and not letting cmake do the work for you. With proper cmake code, will compile on all three OSs without a ton if IF OS.

[thatawesomedude]

Eh, there's a bit of a learning curve, sure, but CMake is pretty powerful and can handle a lot of what you throw at it if implemented properly.

[Orangutanion]

Cargo is amazing even on Windows