Re:We should revisit literate programming in the agent era
by tonyedgecombe on Monday March 09, 2026 @09:06AM
(#47308534)
I always think the biggest mistake is using CMake in the first place. I’ve never come across a project as convoluted and poorly documented as it.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:We should revisit literate programming in the agent era
by palata on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:43AM
(#47309796)
What do you mean by "poorly documented"? I have been using it for 20 years, I have yet to find something that is not documented.
As for convoluted, I don't find it harder than the other build systems I use.
Really the problem I have with CMake is the amount of terribly-written CMakeLists. The norm seems to be to not know the basics of CMake but to still write a mess and then complain about CMake. If people wrote C the way they write CMake, we wouldn't blame the language.