[mikepurvis]

Okay, the other thing I would say having examined this a bit is that GENie seems to be much more "project" oriented than CMake. CMake has a concept of projects, but its usual model centers around targets and directories as the main unit to reason about. That is, CMake's most native output format is a Makefile, with adapters to generate IDE projects.

GENie seems to be focused first and foremost on a project/solution-oriented IDE workflow, with the Makefile generator as the one that's tacked on. So I can definitely appreciate that if you're working on a project where everyone's in an IDE anyway, it would make sense to use a generator that has the IDE's concepts as a first class citizen.