Lars Lehtonen  

any build system that involves spinners, colorized output, or xml is trash.

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Lars Lehtonen  

I googled "cmake sucks" and discovered that I'm not alone.

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Be  

@alrs A sucky build system is appropriate for a sucky language, isn't it?

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Be  

@alrs I know, let's make a better C++ build system... in Python 🙃

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McSinyx  

@be, waf already exists, and it sucks as well. Cc: @alrs

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Be  

@mcsinyx @alrs SCons sucks too. Meson doesn't suck as much, but still, seriously, why write a C++ build system in Python??

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Be  

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

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McSinyx

@be, this reminds me of 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.

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Lars Lehtonen  

@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.

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Be  

@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.

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Lars Lehtonen  

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

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Be  

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

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