Re:Xmake vs. Cmake
by IshKebab on Monday June 03, 2019 @08:32AM
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> there is hardly any project using CMake to the extent of its abilities
I disagree. Every CMake project I've worked on does some weird thing that you couldn't do with Meson or XMake or whatever.
I'd be happy with CMake being the defacto C++ build system if its language wasn't so god awful. The most unforgivable things are that `if()` is broken and there's no real list type (they're just semicolon-delimited strings, with extra complications). In fact everything is a string.
I disagree. Every CMake project I've worked on does some weird thing that you couldn't do with Meson or XMake or whatever.
I'd be happy with CMake being the defacto C++ build system if its language wasn't so god awful. The most unforgivable things are that `if()` is broken and there's no real list type (they're just semicolon-delimited strings, with extra complications). In fact everything is a string.