Oh God, CMake and dependencies are at least 80% of why I decided to learn Rust. I decided to give a shot to C++ back in November/December for a project I'm working on and it was ridiculously painful to do something like set up a simple library with unit tests using CMake, especially coming from writing Java in my day job where it's trivial to do this sort of thing. Starting from scratch with Rust about a month and a half ago, I've been more productive in that month and a half than I was in five months of banging against CMake and trying to figure out how to bring in external dependencies.