I've been trying to learn a system language because it would enable me to access a whole new world of possibility for games, tools, and potential projects. My main problem when learning the language are:
- can I write modern C++ code using the newer standards and still compile with libraries from older standards?
- how do I even organize a C++ project? Look at the linked project, the
CMakeList.txt is so hard to understand, the syntax looks so hard to write.
- how do I install dependencies? You're going to laugh at me, but I always used languages with package managers and I looked again at the linked project, and they write a whole
CMakeList.txt to import ImGui (GUI library I wanna try) but if you compare the structure of the files, it's different from the ones on the repository of ImGui.
As you see there are a lot of problems and it pains me to not be able to solve them because Rust is so unfun to use and work with! Do you think I should try C++, carry one with it?
Thanks,
hector.
I have over a decade of professional C++ experience.
Some of these situations are probably better outside of my industry (gamedev).
That's odd. CMake is the de facto standard in C++. Even Visual Studio supports CMake, and perhaps the best IDE for C++, CLion, is basically built around CMake.
What exactly have you been doing in that decade of experience working with C++?
Like I said, game development. For example, I know Unreal's build system pretty well and that's a bunch of batch files, C#, and nmake that gets generated automatically.