[fivea]

> I will never touch CMake again for my own projects. Ever. Xmake is extremely easy to use (while still being powerful) and really just works.

That's quite the odd statement. CMake is extremely easy to use, just works, and handles everything at all that everyone needs, from building cross-platform projects comprised of multiple programming languages, tests, dependencies, and even packaging.

In your opinion, what makes xmake worth the trouble?

Let's even put up a concrete example. Say I have a cmake project. It handles dependencies with a mix of ExternalProject_Add(), Conan, and even a stashed folder of vended third-party binaries. Also, it handles tests, and packaging, and it runs in a CICD pipeline that does it all on a couple of target platforms. Why would anyone switch that project to xmake?