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by wokwokwok 849 days ago
> In my experience CMake isn't exactly a great developer experience

o_O unlike GN?

Have you used it much?

https://gn.googlesource.com/gn/

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Yes GN IMO is a much better experience than CMake. Its fully self-contained in a single binary that you can easily just distribute with your code. I have a small python script I use with it to regen files, and then to run Ninja to do the actual builds.

I've been using it for years and have no complaints.

I haven't used GN, I'm mostly thinking of Bazel, but was also just interested in the specifics.