Compare Apache Ant and CMake 
Apache Ant vs CMake
- Apache Ant and CMake both meet the requirements of our reviewers at a comparable rate.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that CMake is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of CMake over Apache Ant.
It's simple fast and works in any platform :) and its a open source too
With all of the new technologies coming out Apache ant in my opinion has become pretty obsolete. Even for front end developers they will opt to use Grunt or Gulp instead of something like Ant.
CMake solves the problem of crossplatform developing and libraries/headers hell by defining a meta-language which helps the developer to reproduce the configuration of a project on different machines under different configurations. CMake makes it possible...
I'm not a huge fan of the man-esque online documentation, for people who aren't familiar with *n*x man pages a simple search for how to do something could turn into a witch hunt for something which turns out to be a single line. It's intimidating for people...
It's simple fast and works in any platform :) and its a open source too
CMake solves the problem of crossplatform developing and libraries/headers hell by defining a meta-language which helps the developer to reproduce the configuration of a project on different machines under different configurations. CMake makes it possible...
With all of the new technologies coming out Apache ant in my opinion has become pretty obsolete. Even for front end developers they will opt to use Grunt or Gulp instead of something like Ant.
I'm not a huge fan of the man-esque online documentation, for people who aren't familiar with *n*x man pages a simple search for how to do something could turn into a witch hunt for something which turns out to be a single line. It's intimidating for people...
