Microsoft (both vscode and studio) seems to be moving toward ide adaptation — parsing output from other compilers, supporting compilation databases and folder-only (non solution) projects. Perhaps this, combined with Clang viability for MSVC ABI, will reduce the impetus for cross-platform projects to use cmake just to support Windows. Of course, there’s added inertia in favor of cmake due to LLVM, Boost, and others moving over. Not to mention that Microsoft now also supports the “cmake server” concept (there will be some deep irony if after 20 years of “we need cmake to support Microsoft” the argument for the next N years becomes “we should use cmake because Microsoft supports it”).