Re: [Asset Stewardship] About the Beman Project

From: Boris Kolpackov (boris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-11 11:42:13

Zach Laine via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> the world has standardized on CMake, for better or worse

The "world" has decidedly not standardize on CMake. If anything,
it uses CMake as a lesson in what not to do: if you look at the
recent crop of build systems (Cargo, Zig build, buck2) -- none
of them are meta build systems.

If you mean "C++ world" (note that it's only C++, not C and C++),
even that is a stretch. I would agree that the "open-source C++
library world" has unfortunately largely standardized on CMake.
And this will only hasten C++ becoming even more of a ghetto
since nobody sane will want to learn the CMake witchcraft.