Comment by yoodenvranx

> It sounds like your problem with C/C++ tooling is that it's hard to support Windows

No, the problem is that there is no standardized way to deal with modules and libraries in C and C++. If it would be in the standard the cross-plattform support would be much better.

> the unix-like simplicity of the python and C (and perl?) toolchains.

For small C projects the make/autotools system might be "simple", but for larger projects? It is horrible.