@mcsinyx @alrs I'm glad modern programming languages are solving this problem by making one canonical build system together with the compiler.

@be, this reminds me of #zig build, which can be used for C or C++ as well thanks to interop. It can even cross compile to many platforms (= arch, os and libc) although its C and C++ compilers might not work for every codebase. Not sure if this has anything to do with @alrs' original problem though.

@mcsinyx @be No blockers this morning, I'm just shocked that people accept nasty escape-character spew from build tools where the output is likely to get logged or consumed by other tools.

@alrs @mcsinyx lol have you ever written C++? The build system is the least of the problems. Make a typo and you'll get pages of the implementation details of the standard library spewed into the compiler output.

@be @mcsinyx I took an intro to C++ class once, but used it as my personal intro to C and avoided all the weirdness.

@alrs @mcsinyx It's a horrible language. IMO the only good reason to use it is Qt.