Comment by 38 1 year ago [flagged] 10 comments 38 Reply verandaguy 1 year ago C is not a dead language to literally millions of other programmers and the billions of ongoing practical applications of it.If your threshold for a language's alive-ness is the presence or absence of a package manager, you should reevaluate. creata 1 year ago 1. I don't think the presence of centralized package management makes or breaks a language for most people.2. Your platform's package manager should have plenty of C packages. lwansbrough 1 year ago I think the success of Javascript and Rust certainly tests your biases.I can say anecdotally that the lack of a standard package manager in C and C++ kept me from exploring those languages. another2another 1 year ago I think it kind of depends on your platform. On linux apt-get (or RPM) for *-dev packages usually gets you what you need, and using something like pkg-config makes them a breeze to use in whatever build tools you have.https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/ 1 reply → kachapopopow 1 year ago If you're looking for a package in C you're probably using c for the wrong purpose. 2 replies →
verandaguy 1 year ago C is not a dead language to literally millions of other programmers and the billions of ongoing practical applications of it.If your threshold for a language's alive-ness is the presence or absence of a package manager, you should reevaluate.
creata 1 year ago 1. I don't think the presence of centralized package management makes or breaks a language for most people.2. Your platform's package manager should have plenty of C packages. lwansbrough 1 year ago I think the success of Javascript and Rust certainly tests your biases.I can say anecdotally that the lack of a standard package manager in C and C++ kept me from exploring those languages. another2another 1 year ago I think it kind of depends on your platform. On linux apt-get (or RPM) for *-dev packages usually gets you what you need, and using something like pkg-config makes them a breeze to use in whatever build tools you have.https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/ 1 reply → kachapopopow 1 year ago If you're looking for a package in C you're probably using c for the wrong purpose. 2 replies →
lwansbrough 1 year ago I think the success of Javascript and Rust certainly tests your biases.I can say anecdotally that the lack of a standard package manager in C and C++ kept me from exploring those languages. another2another 1 year ago I think it kind of depends on your platform. On linux apt-get (or RPM) for *-dev packages usually gets you what you need, and using something like pkg-config makes them a breeze to use in whatever build tools you have.https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/ 1 reply → kachapopopow 1 year ago If you're looking for a package in C you're probably using c for the wrong purpose. 2 replies →
another2another 1 year ago I think it kind of depends on your platform. On linux apt-get (or RPM) for *-dev packages usually gets you what you need, and using something like pkg-config makes them a breeze to use in whatever build tools you have.https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/ 1 reply →
kachapopopow 1 year ago If you're looking for a package in C you're probably using c for the wrong purpose. 2 replies →
C is not a dead language to literally millions of other programmers and the billions of ongoing practical applications of it.
If your threshold for a language's alive-ness is the presence or absence of a package manager, you should reevaluate.
1. I don't think the presence of centralized package management makes or breaks a language for most people.
2. Your platform's package manager should have plenty of C packages.
I think the success of Javascript and Rust certainly tests your biases.
I can say anecdotally that the lack of a standard package manager in C and C++ kept me from exploring those languages.
I think it kind of depends on your platform. On linux apt-get (or RPM) for *-dev packages usually gets you what you need, and using something like pkg-config makes them a breeze to use in whatever build tools you have.
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
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If you're looking for a package in C you're probably using c for the wrong purpose.
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