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I disagree, to the point I honestly doubt you are not trolling, specially taking into account how you decided to rank "the IDE" between autotools and handwritten makefiles, which makes absolutely no sense at all either way you look at it.

It's also dumbfounding how Bazel is ranked so high when it doesn't even support integrating system libraries as part of it's happy path.

The main reason why CMake, with all it's flaws, is the undisputed build system for c and C++ projects is the uncomfortable fact that all other alternatives are awful in comparison, even and specially in very basic happy path scenarios such as putting together a lib that any user can pick whether its static of shared and install it in the system folder or anywhere without even bothering with which compiler tool chain you're using. In CMake, anyone can get a complete project up and running with less than a dozen lines of code, and that project will assuredly work on multiple OSes as-is.

You'd be hard pressed to find another C++ build system that comes close to doing the same.