I created a build system to replace cmake because I could not tolerate cmake anymore. I feel that CMake originally started as a great idea. Which is to use lists to describe a build system.
Unfortunately that seems to be forgotten today, to the point where the most intuitive and trivial operations are not possible. So, I set out to basically create what I thought CMake should be.

What does CMakeLists.txt mean to me?

CMakeLists.txt contains lists. It creates lists, changes lists, uses lists to make more lists. You know what else is a list? A command line. Everything your build system does is a command line. The only purpose of a build system is to prepare command lines better.

Why replace CMake?

Hard coded opinionated behavior

No interest in 'modern cmake'

Just go all the way. Lisp or JSON?

I had to decide using JSON or Lisp. Ultimately settled for JSON because I did plan to integrate with web ui's, and communicate in general.

User Interface

Config Files (JSON)

Automation

Dashboard