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This is my life now, until I finally understand Cmake. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 11 months ago by jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Which will probably be never.

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[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 29 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Life is and will always be better writing your own Makefiles. It's literally so easy. I do not get the distaste. Cmake is arcane magic. Bazel is practically written in runes. Makefile is a just a glorified build script, but where you don't have to use a bunch of if statements to avoid building everything each time.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Manual makefiles don't scale though and you end up needing some other bootstrap framework pretty quick.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

How the heck does a Makefile not scale??? That's all it does!

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