Re: [Asset Stewardship] About the Beman Project

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-16 15:31:29

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 8:17 AM Christian Mazakas via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> CMake is basically the de facto standard for most OSS projects.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. From the Jetbrains build system survey [1]:

CMake 42%
Visual Studio project 37%
Makefiles 33%

CMake is definitely popular but given that it is only a third more
popular than a raw Makefile, calling it the "de-facto standard" is a
bit premature.

Thanks

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/cpp/