[gavinray]

I've used it, it was actually so good I donated money to the author.

One of the best build systems I've ever used. The author replied to my question within a day on the Discord.

It's an underrated build system. Easiest thing, and has support for just about every language under the sun baked in, even obscure ones.

One of my favorite features particular to C++ is that you can configure dependencies to use local libraries, vcpkg, or Conan specifically.

Before anyone knocks it, highly suggest giving it a try on your next personal project.

[fivea]

> One of my favorite features particular to C++ is that you can configure dependencies to use local libraries, vcpkg, or Conan specifically.

This was the only substantiated claim you made in your whole post, but it refers to stuff that most standard build systems already do, specially cmake.

In fact, it's even trivial to hack together a plain old Makefile to add a target that invokes vcpkg or conan to fill in dependencies.

What exactly do you believe makes xmake worth the trouble?