I can't take a (C++) project seriously if it is using Visual Studio's build system instead of autotools, CMake or even just a Makefile.

Lmao this is pretty rich comming from a 16 year old....there are products out there that were built exactly how you described them that are older than you

Check out the Meson build system.

I actually like Visual Studio :)

Then you can't take many project seriously. Google Chrome just moved away from it 2 weeks ago...

@AleCx04 I can't take a project serious either if it has not been updated for more than 16 years.

@Codex404 then I can't take it seriously. A CROSS-PLATFORM project should not be limited by a closed build system.

Make ftw

CMake?.. it will convert your project at best to some convoluted crippled version of Visual Studio project (if that's your IDE of choice). How can this be even acceptable?.. I work on projects where literally heart of a billion dollar company's main project is a visual studio solution that you can open and... omg, build right away... build and run. Unbelievable. Every fucking project that uses cmake will take efforts to fucking get it converted to something that can build and if it's not a hello world project it just never works. Never. that's how it was 15 years ago, that's how it is now

Can you do that in cmake... yes, you'd need to do some weird moves to end up with fucked up version of VS project. What for?.. just to avoid having multiple projects for different targets (xcode, android etc). But if you chose cmake, you'll instead of having 3-4 different projects to maintain, you'll have 4-5 messed up projects and then only benefit is adding or removing a file becomes trivial.