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It’s really not good enough, it’s ok to admit it. Nobody likes CMake, it just somehow won the makefile generator wars. Having to a learn shitty, esoteric language to compile my code Is not something that makes me more productive.


I agree. qmake was much, much better to work with than cmake. I tend to believe the reason cmake won is because qmake was so associated with Qt. The best tech does not always win.


> Having to a learn shitty, esoteric language to compile my code Is not something that makes me more productive.

You say that but frankly between CMake code and Ant or msbuild ...


Qmake. It’s simple, it’s cross-platform, it gets out of my way.


it's also going the way of the dodo as Qt 6 is migrating to CMake :p


5 will get forked because of the way 6 is being licensed.





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