• leviosa@programming.devOP
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    So it offers nothing over cmake…

    In your opinion, I’d say the overall integration and being an actual build system are offerings for starters.

    It also supports other languages like Zig, Pascal and Rust too. Here’s an example of C++ calling Rust, note the easy inclusion of Cargo crates…

    https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake/tree/dev/tests/projects/rust/cxx_call_rust_library

    xmake is just nicer, more concise and 100% less shouty. People in general use cmake because it’s the de facto standard, not because they like cmake and its DSL.

    xmake can generate cmake files too so it’s not going against the grain. There are plugins for popular IDEs as well.

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      xmake is just nicer, more concise and 100% less shouty.

      Not really. It’s yet another build system whose main aspiration is to eventually match cmake’s capabilities but missing all the reasons that made cmake the de facto standard, such as the declarative straight to the point way of specifying targets.

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          lots of people use xmake

          Define “lots”.

          Also, your weekend pet project is not the same as a corporation’s cash cow.

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            Close to half of C++ developers in that survey regularly use something other than CMake and I’ve seen projects at Microsoft and Epic Games use xmake. Why are you being such a pecker?