[ridiculous_fish]

What do you advise using instead?

[ur-whale]

There is the problem indeed.

In 2018, the age-old problem of the build system remains entirely unsolved.

CMake is terrible, but so are all the others.

I believe the CS community as a whole has gravely under-estimated how hard the build system problem actually is.

We're only starting to recognize this.

[nwmcsween]

Ideally there would be something like premake but with a smaller and more focused DSL.