> Just curious: where exactly is the shell in `cmake -GNinja`? Or is CMake not a build system hmmm? Nevermind that some people use bazel or meson or something ... other than shell...
Right above it; cmake replaces make, but something still runs it. And IME that something is usually either a developer running it from a shell (ideally eventually with another shell command wrapping it to automatically build on file changes) or a CI system running it which is always a massive pile of shell scripts.
To be fair, I don't doubt that if you really tried you could build a dev environment that used zero shell. But you would have to really try, and half of the things you had to build to make it work would inevitably converge to an informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp^w^wBASH.
Right above it; cmake replaces make, but something still runs it. And IME that something is usually either a developer running it from a shell (ideally eventually with another shell command wrapping it to automatically build on file changes) or a CI system running it which is always a massive pile of shell scripts.
To be fair, I don't doubt that if you really tried you could build a dev environment that used zero shell. But you would have to really try, and half of the things you had to build to make it work would inevitably converge to an informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp^w^wBASH.