Comment by 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.
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.
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/
And even if one wants to use dependencies not available as a distro devel package (or as a fallback to missing distro devel package), things like meson and cmake make it relatively straightforward to use vendored dependencies.
If you're looking for a package in C you're probably using c for the wrong purpose.
No true Scotsman. I guess people using Rust for low level development are also wrong.
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