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by ur-whale 2850 days ago
Couldn't agree more.

Any system that designs its own DSL should be suspect: designing languages is bloody hard, and anyone who think he can cobble his own to solve a problem as hard as build systems is doomed to produce something like cmake.
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whyever 2850 days ago
It's kind of a historical accident. Originally, CMake was supposed to be just a list of commands (CMakeLists.txt). Of course, it was heavily extended to what we have now.
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rutthenut 2850 days ago
Do understand that things change over time, from simple beginnings to complex offspring. But I agree with many commenters here; it is frustrating and a ball-ache to have to learn yet another syntax to manage build dependencies and instructions. On that, I also detest how YAML, Python and so on make space indentation a core aspect of how the files are interpreted and processed. That idea stinks. imvho.
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whyever 2849 days ago
> it is frustrating and a ball-ache to have to learn yet another syntax to manage build dependencies and instructions.

Oh, I agree as well. I was just providing context.

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