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CMake is ugly as HELL and verbose, doesnt show you where is the error (at least for the CMakeLists) and gen a lot of files.

Autotools is for ... idek but not humans, thats for sure.

SCons is slow (Python!), but can be quite OK cuz its uses a real language, not a custom DSL.

Meson, cool but --native-file ???

And Make is the holy leader, on every Unix AND mingw.

Oh and Cons by GNU is very cool too, but hey, perl

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  • 3
    1d
    Python slow for a build tool? Don't think so. Python isn't slow at all, it's actually fast enough for most things like a build tool.
  • 1
    23h
    Isn't there a lua one? The one that Hazel guy uses
  • 1
    22h
    Meson? Ninja?
  • 1
    21h
    @afaIk BRUH they suck
  • 2
    20h
    i made a builtool that doubles as a perl kitchensink library. i used it to make a C preprocessor. now i can execute perl scripts inside C source files, so that i can rewrite my perl library in C and generate perl bindings for it.

    i am become evil wizard.
  • 2
    19h
    @BordedDev you mean Cherno? Cherno mentioned on my fucking 15-people-left dev ranting app?!?!?!?
  • 2
    13h
    @AlgoRythm That's the one
  • 2
    10h
    @Liebranca my head hurts, first to the mention of perl and-
  • 0
    10m
    @3dgoosee shhh, its okay sweet summer child. you need not bother yourself with the esoteric implications. its just another bootstrap :)
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