I have to respectfully disagree.  Cmake isn&#x27;t super amazing and has some flaws and a less than ideal design and language, but it gets the job done.  Autotools is more like something that was needed once in the 1980&#x27;s when you had to support 300 different proprietary UNIX&#x27;s and compilers &#x2F; stdlib&#x27;s weren&#x27;t very standardized and had lots of bugs and warts, and now only exist because of inertia.