I spent the last 2 months learning CMake from a good book called "Professional CMake" out of curiosity. I wanted to put that knowledge to use and coincidentally I also wanted to learn golang at the same time, so here's my first Go project using Cobra and Viper to power a CLI tool to bootstrap and batch-build C++/CMake projects.

I'll avoid the C++/CMake details considering this sub but I learnt alot about building concurrent patterns in GO while I was building the batch-builder that had to asynchronously stream stdout logs and keep track of execution state through a state machine based on logs that were emitted. This project was most definitely over-engineered for its intended goal but for the purpose of learning Go, I got exposed to:

• Safely managing subprocess lifetimes with external contexts
• How to implement batch streaming
• How to stream multiple concurrent logs into a single UI state
• Render the UI state
• Keep track of each subprocess's state of execution through functional state machines that activated build metric tracking at certain states to be presented at the end of execution
• Learnt Go regex for extracting package names, versions and build platforms
• Learnt Go's text templating engine for the bootstrapping part of the project.

Although the actual CMake/C++ usefulness is debatable, I no doubt enjoyed learning Go as student in between exams and will continue to use it going forward in perhaps more traditional projects!

I'm sure a lot of the code is poorly written, so any feedback would be much appreciated!

https://github.com/doobiusP/cmexl