[rubicks]

A good chunk of my day job is beating sense into CMakeLists.txt files. It's exhausting in every meaningful dimension. In my literal decades of working with cmake, no amount of familiarity has ever brought me contentment. Rather, with each passing release, the contortions grow ever more torturous.

At one point, on one project, in a moment of supreme frustration, I replaced cmake with GNU Make and a single Makefile. I'm not proud, but for that one instance, it was a good decision because It Just Worked.