[Firecracker]

My best experience with a build tool has been FB's Buck (buckbuild.com), half for it not limiting you to just C/C++, and half for buckaroo (buckaroo.pm) making installs of common packages--like protobuff--easy.

I find that the second limiting factor I hit is being able to easily interop with other languages and to cross-compile for other platforms. Buck makes that super easy, too.

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Interesting; I haven't used this tool, myself. I want to say that I've heard of it, before, but I'm not sure if I'm confused on that point (or if I just really want to have heard of it before).

Looking over the docs, it seems like a rather all-encompassing build tool. I might have to try it out for the one project that I'm still paying attention to which is C++ based and uses Hunter[0]. I see a lot of references/examples talking about using this for Java projects, but I haven't come across anything related to C/C++ (other than the cxx_\* calls, which appear centered around bringing in a native dependency). Any suggestions for a good quickstart project out in the wild or a larger open-source codebase (C/C++) that uses it?

[0] Or it's less official, but more commonly used name, "f!cking hunter", followed by loud, anger-ish sounding noises.