"CMake, you say? Yeah, CMake is like smashing your face on high quality pavement. You can admire the stonework while the blood pours down your face."
Pieter Hintjens, http://hintjens.com/blog:79
Pieter Hintjens, http://hintjens.com/blog:79
I'll point out that the article was written "2430 days ago" and uses a CMakeLists.txt example that looks like it.
The article then goes on to announce Yet Another Build System that doesn't seem to have gotten any traction.
But you're right it got almost zero traction outside of zeromq.
It completely blows my mind that this demoware has made inroads anywhere.