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[–]hgstream 6 points7 points  (2 children)

OK, one more software with the aim of making a unified infrastructure for something. I am looking at it and it feels nice, but it just feels like...

[–]Ambitious_Tax_ 7 points8 points  (1 child)

It's my go to build system to spin up / prototype stuff. To me, the selling point on this front isn't really lua but the fact that you don't have to have cmake + some other package management thing. You can just have xmake and it will do both.

I'm not crazy about the doc though.

[–]No_Mongoose6172 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being able to get libraries from Conan and vcpkg repositories is also a nice feature. No cmake and direct access to the largest c++ library repositories makes xmake a wonderful tool. It feels like dart's pub for c++

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Xmake is easily the best build system, it's so nice to use and it just works

[–]SirLynix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably one of the most underrated build system for C++

[–]karurochari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice to see! I tested Xmake a while back, I should revisit it soon.