In case anyone wants to know the actual answer, it stands for cross platform make, and my understanding is that it’s for generating build project files for various development environments. For instance, with one CMake file you can generate a Visual Studio Solution file, an XCode project file, a Makefile, etc. Several IDEs are also able to read CMake files directly.
That works until you need to support Visual Studio or Xcode. Then you either maintain their stuff manually too, or you get CMake to generate all three. I don’t love it but it solves the problem it’s meant to solve. The issue is people using it when they don’t need to.
Same here, might just be because I learned with Object Oriented languages but C++ syntax just gels well with how I think. That could just be autism though.
Nah it’s been confirmed that the expansion pack was used from the very beginning for the lighting engine (game does have pretty damn good looking lighting for its age, to be fair).
I mean, I hate Windows as much as the next guy, but the Recent Files list can help pick up the slack here. Also Windows typically saves new files to appropriate places and saves edits to existing files in the same place you opened the file at. Not knowing where a file is has never really been a problem I’ve had with Windows. If I have it’s usually been because an individual 3rd party app did something weird.
These things are popping up like Javascript frameworks recently. And ironically enough those seem to have slowed down.
Tbh I’m not sure if you can. That’s proprietary IDEs for you.